We can’t play pickup baseball on the Terps’ field?

Fresh to the University of Maryland campus, the three transfer students ran around the baseball field like the little boys we were just a few short years prior. We tested our throwing arms from shortstop to first base, and stood at home plate and did that little self-toss and crack-the-bat move to try to whack…

At Green Lakes, it’s all about your viewpoint

The people of Central New York flock to Green Lakes State Park for all sorts of recreation. There are beaches for swimming. Two lakes, Green and Round. Camping. Bikers all around. Runners and hikers and hills. Snowshoe and cross-country skiing trails come winter. Yet this is still the fourth installment of “Golfing with KP, Tater…

DJ, Bird almost land an eagle

Two holes in a row last night at Northern Pines, I hustled to the little black bag tucked inside my golf bag and pulled out my iPhone 4. It was quite the week four for our little informal formal golf league. DJ had returned from his week off to tend to visiting family. We teed…

Now this is a dog park

Big night at the big dog park Saturday night. The Syracuse Chiefs organization did it up right for Bark in the Park. There will be more to come tomorrow, here, and as my weekly community column for Syracuse Public Media site waer.org covers the escalation of dog awareness and celebrations in our part of the…

Never underestimate an imported pickle

My dear wife Karen appropriated the card of the smiling, baseball-holding pickle to the Bialczak refrigerator door hall of fame. Quite the Syracuse honor for the Dill from Toledo via Ann Arbor. Beth of I Didn’t Have My Glasses On sent over a glittering package of congratulations after our bonafide big baseball bloggers wager based…

Put on the all-weather radials

Reader Paul Curran had to pitch in his favorite golf shot to my increasing collection of greenside photographs. Yes, this is good man Paul and his golfing mates during a round at the Manderley on the Green Golf Club in Ottawa, Canada. The identity of the rest of his foursome will remain Paul’s to know…

That close one is mine

Three-wood to three feet. Maybe even 2 1/2. I don’t get to see that lovely result too much as I near the green after hitting an approach shot. The blind pig found the acorn last night during our informal little formal league at Northern Pines in Cicero, N.Y. Adding to the surprise, and fun, was…

The baseball bloggers wager is down to this

One game does a bet make. Syracuse Chiefs at the Toledo Mud Hens, Fifth Third Bank Field, Toledo, Ohio, tonight, for all the marbles. If the Chiefs win, to take the eight-game series 5-3, it shall be on the pages of markbialczak.com: If the Mud Hens win in front of Beth of I Didn’t Have…