The Face of Baseball

The world of competitive sports has seen many changes in the last 30 years. Looking back at sporting history, you can set different eras that represented different philosophies and ways of looking at the game. Up until mid 20th century, all organized team sports were based on amateur players. This is a time when a lot relied on people’s willingness to play and to help manage the teams for the love of the game. Up until the...

The new Casino in town

Yes, it’s true there’s a new casino in town. It’s totally modern and has all the comfort you can hope for. You can drink and eat anything you please while you’re gambling and you’ll never be bounced out of it for any type of behavior. There’s also no dress code, some of us are known to gamble in our pajamas. You probably guessed it by now that this new casino is online. Let me just say it, first of all, that there’s...

Horse Racing

The first record of domesticated horses goes back to 4500BC to the nomadic tribesmen and since then, this kind of competition has remained a favorite. This sport has been played in major civilization from the Mediterranean across to central Asia. Back as far as 638BC, Chariot Races as well as Mounted Horse Racing events were part of the ancient Greek Olympics and the Roman Empire had their fascination with horse racing also. Today,...

Popularity of Backgammon

The location was Egypt, circa 3500 BC when a game called Senet began and this game is similar to our game called Backgammon. Although the real beginning is impossible to trace and will be a mystery forever, there are variations along with its expansion found in many parts of the world. Over time, backgammon could be documented to a few places, one being Oxford Universal Dictionary in 1645 but the first rules were penned in 1743. ...

Little Works of Art

Once viewed as a source of luck and skill as well as advertising, history and art, this little rectangular piece of hard paper sure gets around. Designed to be works of art, the first cards were hand painted and often highly decorated. So precious were these cards, they were given as gifts for wedding and listed in wills to be passed down in the family. Cards had harmony of color and artistic skill as well as decorated with...