All posts tagged baseball

You Can Take a Baseball Out of Pie, but You Can’t Take the Pie Out of Baseball

There’s been a lot of pie controversy in baseball lately. The Florida Marlins have banned shaving cream pie throwing & other such hi-jinx because Chris Coghlan somehow managed to injure his knee when he jumped to throw a pie in the face of teammate Wes Helms after he hit a game-winning home run. As I’ve [...]

Strasburg Learns About Baseball’s Pie Tradition

Stephen Strasburg, last year’s number one pick in the MLB draft, made his Major League debut last night and wowed the sellout Washington Nationals crowd (a rarity). Strasburg struck out 14 in his first appearance, an impressive feat. After the game, Strasburg learned about baseball’s pie-in-the-face tradition. Normally baseball players get a shaving cream pie [...]

Pie Travel: American Pie Baseball Package in San Diego

File this under ridiculously American. The Omni San Diego Hotel is connected to the San Diego Padres stadium. The hotel offers a package that includes a room with a view of the baseball field, tickets to a Padres game, and Apple Pie for two. The only thing that would make it more American is if [...]

Baseball and Pie; BFFs

It’s Opening Day for most Major League Baseball teams, one of my favorite times of the year. Fellow pie-lover, Barack Obama threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals game to get things rolling. Pie and baseball are forever linked because they’re such iconic symbols of Americana, especially since Chevrolet came up with this [...]