Clinton Yates

2 weeks ago | andscape.com | Clinton Yates

OMAHA, Neb. — Not all double plays are turned equally. When the Louisville Cardinals’ battery adroitly pulled off a successful 1-2-3 double play in the top of the sixth inning at Jim Patterson Stadium last week, complete with a fantastic stretch at first base to snuff out a bases-loaded situation and end the frame while keeping the score tied — whew — you felt it. From there, they could smell Omaha and the Men’s College World Series.

Feb 28, 2025 | andscape.com | Clinton Yates

VERO BEACH, Fla. — On the surface, it looks like any other baseball tournament weekend in America. Young players from various teams are milling about the ballpark, parents have blankets across their laps and toddlers are doing everything but watching the ballgame on the field. But under the surface, there are little details that reveal the complex weave which makes up the tapestry of our sporting pastime at the amateur level in 2025.

Jan 29, 2025 | andscape.com | Clinton Yates

Hip-hop has its first Hall of Famer in Cooperstown. When Carsten Charles Sabathia Jr. got the call that he would be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Jan. 22 — on the first ballot no less — the Vallejo, California, native celebrated with friends and family and it hit me clear as day.

Dec 2, 2024 | andscape.com | Clinton Yates

“Sportswriters hate me, but my numbers don’t lie. … They gotta let me in. It’s my year and everybody knows it.”Those are the words of one Stan Ross, played by the indomitable Bernard Jeffrey McCullough in the 2004 movie, Mr. 3000. A wildly underrated baseball movie in terms of being another vehicle for Bernie Mac to show off his comedic genius, 20 years later it serves with striking accuracy as a fascinating reminder of what the game means to quite a few Black veteran ballplayers.

Nov 18, 2024 | andscape.com | Clinton Yates

My new favorite thing to do on Saturdays in the fall is type in “Deion” to my social media search bar and just read about Colorado head coach Deion Sanders. With Thanksgiving around the corner in 2024, you’d think that man was coming to steal turkeys off your tables instead of trying to feed his community in more ways than one. Someone is going to have to explain to me who is a better college football coach in the United States of America than Coach Prime.