Tag: Baseball

PEOPLE

In Remembrance of My Friend Luigi Tinonga

Post author By davidfrancislawlor
Post date July 26, 2022

I met Luigi Tinonga when I was too young to remember meeting him. My family lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1980s before I entered kindergarten. My aunt and uncle lived in Oakland and they were neighbors and friends with Luigi and his wife Calleen. My parents would take my sister […]

CULTURE

Ducks, Beavers, And A Tale of Two Ball Fields

Post author By davidfrancislawlor
Post date April 16, 2022

For college baseball in Oregon, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. When I moved to Eugene in 2013, the state’s two major college baseball programs were in very different places. The Oregon State University Beavers had recently won the national championship in 2006 and 2007. Inching their way toward […]