As you may know by now, Anchorage Bucs founder and long-time General Manager Dennis Mattingly passed away a week ago. A celebration of his life is planned for today, from 11a.m. until 4p.m., at Tudor Road Bingo. It will be a potluck-style get together. I’ve already said my piece on Dennis but I’d just like [...]

Dear readers, you may have noticed that this blog has slowed down quite a bit over the winter. While I wish I could revive it on a more positive note, I have to break the recent silence with the bad news that Bucs founder and former general manager Dennis Mattingly is fighting for his life. [...]

The Glacier Pilots and the entire Alaskan baseball community were rocked by a huge loss this week with the passing of Lefty van Brunt on Tuesday, at the age of 78. Lefty is a legend of baseball in Anchorage, having coached for the Glacier Pilots in one capacity or another since 1969 — taking baseball [...]

The most random post on this blog is becoming even more random as I seem to be posting it at completely random intervals these days. Oh well, that’s appropriate, right? I won’t make the usual apologies because by now you all know that it’s kinda that time of the year. But there’s some stuff going [...]

In the mid 60′s, the Goldpanners launched a personality into orbit that still hasn’t landed. I won’t dance around the issue here. Bill Lee is quite possibly my favorite baseball player of all time, and was so before I even knew that he was a Goldpanner. You might have got a hint of that since [...]