Scott Pitoniak
Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance
Sports Columnist at Rochester Business Journal
Husband, dad, grandfather, friend, storyteller, best-selling author, nationally honored columnist, TV contributor, volunteer, historian, work-in-progress
Articles
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1 week ago |
rbj.net | Scott Pitoniak
As the late, great John Lennon once sang, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”Late Saturday night, early Sunday morning, golfer J.J. Spaun was planning on being sound asleep, so he would be well-rested for the final round of the U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club in suburban Pittsburgh.
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2 weeks ago |
rbj.net | Scott Pitoniak
Dusty and Melissa Baker were severely jet-lagged. They had just returned to Sacramento after a week in Scranton, Pa. and were looking forward to catching some Z’s. But when they received the call from their son Darren that he had been promoted from the Rochester Red Wings to the major leagues, they experienced a proud-parent adrenaline rush.
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3 weeks ago |
rbj.net | Scott Pitoniak
I wasn’t at that 33-inning baseball marathon between the Rochester Red Wings and Pawtucket Red Sox during the spring and summer of 1981, but thanks to scores of conversations I’ve had with players, managers, announcers and spectators who were there I’ve come to feel as if I were sitting in the front row. The longest game in baseball history has been somewhat of an obsession with me ever since I wrote my first story about it on its 10th anniversary.
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1 month ago |
rbj.net | Scott Pitoniak
My introduction to bobbleheads occurred while riding in a neighbor’s car when I was four or five years old. My friends and I burst out laughing as we watched a glued-to-the-dashboard hula dancer’s hips sway back and forth when the car started moving. All that was missing was Hawaiian luau music on the radio. We later would pine for the cherubic-faced, ceramic bobbleheads of Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle in their baseball uniforms when they were first issued in the early 1960s.
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1 month ago |
rbj.net | Scott Pitoniak
Not long after the white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney in Vatican City and news broke that Robert Prevost had become the first head of the Catholic church to hail from the United States, fans began speculating about newly elected Pope Leo XIV’s sports allegiances. Since Prevost hails from Chicago, the search for his fandom roots began in the Windy City.
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Pope Leo’s sporting interests rooted in Chicago’s southside https://t.co/DWq0xpckok
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