I just returned from dinner with Marty Lurie and Gary Furness, two of my closest friends. We ate at Bocanova in Jack London Square, Oakland and talked baseball nonstop. Gary drove down from Santa Rosa where he's a doctor. My vacation is almost over and it's nice to cap it [...]
Whenever I cover a Giants home game, as I did Thursday, Marty Lurie comes over from his seat on the radio side of the press box, and sits with me most of the game. This is our tradition. What do we do? We talk the game. We talk through it, [...]
Something else from Marty Lurie's show. He said if Aubrey Huff keeps hitting this poorly the Giants will need to get a veteran first baseman from the waver wire. I agree. How can the Giants go into the postseason -- if they go into the postseason -- with a first [...]
Over at ComcastSportsNet BayArea they are celebrating Willie Mays' 80th birthday in all sorts of ways. Grant just contributed a column about Mays' distinctive basket catch, the most famous fielding maneuver in baseball history. Can you name something more distinctive? Grant used Marty Lurie as his guest expert, Marty who [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.