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Baseball, You Done Me Wrong - The Rise and Fall of a Baseball Fan B aseball has always been my favorite sport and with the exception of the years between 1968 and 1973, I have followed the sport closely, filling my head with largely useless baseball trivia. I grew up a New York Yankee fan. As a result, I was about as spoiled a baseball fan as one could be. The Yankees won the World Series the first 5 years of my life. While one might argue, and have a very good case, that both the Brooklyn Dodgers and Cleveland Indians looked to have superior rosters, it was the Yankees who dominated the baseball world in the 50's. They won 9 American League (AL) pennants and 7 World Series in the 10 year period between 1949 and 1958, the first 10 years of my life. They played 154 games in those days and the Yankees averaged 96 victories. The 2 World Series they lost went the full 7 games. The year they failed to win the pennant, 1954, they still won 103 games only to come in second to Clev

Working at Consilium My co-worker Rama, brother Pete and Me at the Consilium picnic I t has always been important to me to have control of my time.  I have always resisted being tethered to a schedule.  Even now that I am retired, I look forward to days that have no defined activities.  The number one joy of retirement is gaining back control of my time.  I'm sure just about everyone wants that but my experience is that I seem to like it a bit more than most.  Friends of mine who have retired often still seem to like to have a full schedule of activities.  Of course I have never completely escaped that as I currently do take a couple of classes through The Renaissance Society program at Sac State and also have a regular exercise routine.  However I grant myself permission to modify or skip these if I feel like it.  The truth is I am pretty regular about it.  I rarely had a job that I didn't like.  The few times I found work to be unpleasant I changed jobs.  The exception was