In the beginning, there was one. One source of media for the IronPigs and that came from the Morning Call.
The sportswriter who gave us that initial IronPig coverage that we so craved was the Morning Call’s Jeff Schuler via his “Hog Blog.”
After the first year media picked up as interest in the IronPigs exploded and filled the internet with all the info Pig fans could want. Heck, even the gang here at The Horn & Bell didn’t really get started until late in 2009.
With that said, we IronPig fans will be saying, “Farewell” to Jeff Schuler’s Hog Blog. The Morning Call website showed the change this morning. Good luck and Best Wishes Jeff! You wrote the first seven years of history for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. Thank you!
Welcome to the Hog Blog, a blog chronicling minor-league baseball in the Lehigh Valley. Tom Housenick, The Morning Call’s IronPigs beat writer, has been at The Morning Call since 2008. In a previous lifetime, he was at Lackawanna County Stadium in Moosic talking with future Phillies Jimmy Rollins, Pat Burrell, Shane Victorino and Ryan Howard, among many others. He’ll now be spending his summers in search of who the Phillies are hoping to be the next Chase Utley and Cole Hamels plus any outfielder who catch and hit. What he really hopes to find are the next Mariano Rivera, Todd Helton and Jim Thome — great human beings who happened to be great at this sport. He spent the last five years covering Colonial League football, college basketball and high school track & field.
So now we say, “Hail & Welcome” to Tom Housenick as he joins us on the Bacon trail.
You can follow Tom on the Hog Blog, link here or on Twitter @TomHousenick.
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Did Mandy change her name after a trip to Europe?
Mandy now works for ESU. She no longer covers the Phillies.