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Place No. 73: Baseball Reliquary; and Alternative Place No. 73A: South Shore Sports Legends and a Mets tragedy
16 days ago by
Mets Guy in Michigan
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I confess I had to look up “reliquary,” which the American Heritage Dictionary defines as “a receptacle, such as a coffer or shrine, for keeping or displaying sacred relics.”We need to know this because Josh Pahigian takes us back to Los Angeles for The Baseball Reliquary or...
Top 20 Minnesota Twins Prospects for 2010
October 19, 2009 by
Minor League Ball
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Top 20 Minnesota Twins Prospects for 2010.
All grades are EXTREMELY PRELIMINARY and subject to change. Don't get too worried about exact rankings at this point, especially once you get beyond the Top 10. Grade C+/C guys are pretty interchangeable depending on what...
Morning Update: This is it... Let's end it
October 04, 2009 by
The Tribe Daily
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Who's ready to put this season behind and move on?:raises hand:Hopefully you raised your hand.It will be nice to put behind a year where we don't have to hear numskull's like Albert Belle chime in.I mean really, what is this guy doing right now? Stalking poor innocent women...
Hall of Fame WAR Path: Center Field - Graph of the Day
October 01, 2009 by
Beyond the Box Score
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Click to Enlarge.
Today, a graph by numbers. (continued)
#. Name (Lifetime WAR) - Years through 2008
1. Kenny Lofton (67.2) - 17 - Makes an excellent case for himself, following the path of an HoFer to the end.
2. Jim Edmonds (67.7) - 16 - This chart says...
Fire Everyone! - Derek Shelton
September 12, 2009 by
Let's Go, Tribe!
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Derek Shelton and Kenny Lofton
View full size photo uploaded September 13, 2009
This is the second installment in a twelve part series.
Derek Shelton became the Indians hitting coach in June 2005, replacing...
Michael Brantley Debut Ignites Love For Speed and More Questions
September 04, 2009 by
Bleacher Report
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When the Cleveland Indians re-acquired outfielder Kenny Lofton during their run to the ALCS in 2007, the city was buzzing about baseball louder than it had been in a long while.
You can say what you want about chicks digging the long ball and the summer of 1996 bringing the game back...
Indian or Out-dian?
August 23, 2009 by
Mistake Sports
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We'll get back to our "Exploring the 1995 Media Guide" series, I promise, but first, in flipping through the book, trying to decide which section to showcase next, I was inspired to bring you this non-Media Guide post. The question is simple: which of our 1990s Indians...
Cubs 101 - Pt. 51 - In Dusty We Trusty
August 18, 2009 by
Goat Riders of the Apocalypse
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The 2002 season marked the end of the Don Baylor era in Chicago, and also served as the year of Andy MacPhail's resignation from the General Managership position of the team -- although he'd stay on as president, and in retrospect it's difficult to say how much actually...
Top 10 Base Runners in MLB Since 1954
August 12, 2009 by
Bleacher Report
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Selecting the best base runners of any time period is difficult to do. To go prior to 1954 is practically impossible, due to lack of pertinent data.
I guess you could just use stolen base percentage, but then you just have the best base thief, not the best base runner. There is a difference...
Rollie's Follies: A Hall Of Famer Speaks
August 08, 2009 by
Bleacher Report
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When people approach professional athletes, they are usually looking for a career retrospective or a biography. That is exactly what Yellowstone Ritter had in mind when he contacted Hall of Famer Rollie Fingers.
With the idea on the table, Rollie said no. So Yellowstone went...
Fire Sales: A Pittsburgh Pirate Annual Tradition
July 30, 2009 by
Bleacher Report
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During the 2003 playoffs, a sign in Wrigleyville was quite noticeable on television."Thank You, Pittsburgh," the sign read.That season, the Cubs' lineup was filled with players like Randall Simon, Kenny Lofton, and Aramis Ramirez, all of whom came from the mess that was...
Less Productive Leadoff Hitters Are Better?
Someone named Kent Sterling in a place called Indianapolis at a radio station called "The Fan" has ideas about making the Cubs better, and they involve Jake Fox catching and then moving to left field, Alfonso Soriano playing second base, and some other things.
His thoughts...
The Tribe on a treadmill
June 28, 2009 by
Tribe Fan in Yankeeland
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Well, ‘that time of year again’ has come a few weeks early this year. It’s the time of year when we as Tribe fans are supposed to get all excited because we ‘stole” one of somebody’s best prospects.And we’ll probably be doing it again at least sometime over the next five...
It Will Always Be The Jake
June 05, 2009 by
Cleveland Sports Animal
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Behind the 455 consecutive sellouts at what was formerly called Jacobs Field was a man who did so much for the city of Cleveland in so many ways unrelated to sports. Former Indians owner Richard E. "Dick" Jacobs passed away today at the age of 83.As much heartache as we...
My favorite Sosa memories
June 04, 2009 by
Another Cubs Blog
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I was fifteen during the summer of 98, and was barely a baseball fan at the time, let alone a Cubs fan. My family is full of Cubs fans but as I grew up in the DC area and didn’t have cable for most of my childhood, my baseball fandom was pretty much confined to watching the...
Morning Update: ....... Damn
May 16, 2009 by
The Tribe Daily
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Two in a row... going for two in a row against the same team for the first time all year.An early guaranteed split and an inside track at winning the series 3-1...All gone as quick as the seven run lead.Pathetic.I fell asleep at some point.. Then I awoke to the game still being on...
The Tao of Fred McGriff - Day 11
March 11, 2009 by
The Baseball Card Blog
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I've noticed lately that as they age, the one really noticeable place people gain weight is in the face. Even athletes, whose job it is to stay in impeccable shape. Just look at Tony Perez's Super Veterans card in 1983 Topps; he almost looks like two different people. I bring...
Yes, Virginia, There is an Attendance Clause
March 11, 2009 by
The Sports Agent Blog
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How would you feel about this? You are an all-star athlete and you
are about to sign a monster contract. Then, without notice, the GM
says, "Ok, son. You will be paid a bonus if you bring in more fans to
the stadium." WOW!
Believe it or not, this statement has been said...
Cashner Hurt and Sale News
March 07, 2009 by
Cub Reporter
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Just a few quick hits worth mentioning...
- First round pick Andrew Cashner, who was cut yesterday, has a strained oblique.
- Bud says talks are still ongoing on the sale betweeen Ricketts and the Tribune. It doesn't sound too optimistic that it will get done by Opening...
Girardi Should Take a Page Out of Leyland’s Book
February 21, 2009 by
NY Baseball Digest
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Peter Abraham wrote about Nick Swisher and the flexibility he can provide by playing first base, right, left, and center. This years Yankees team has a good problem - too many productive starting outfielders and not enough places to play. Swisher, Damon, Nady, and Melky Cabrera are...
The 25th Man
January 21, 2009 by
Waiting For Next Year
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Perusing the Internet for material, I came across a very interesting piece from SI.com on the state of second-tier free agents and the lack of money available for them. In it, there was a blurb about how the fiscal situation of many teams last year (combined with the ego's of certain...
Different ways to win
January 20, 2009 by
Another Cubs Blog
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Over at GROTA, Kurt has an interesting post up about the different ways teams win. Kurt narrows it down to 4 methods: The Yankees, Red Sox, Rays and Cubs methods. I have a few issues with this.
Let?s first outline what each method essential is. The Yankees method is spending...
The Road to 17: 2003
January 05, 2009 by
Where Is Andy Van Slyke
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The Road to 17 is a look at each losing season that the Pirates have had since their last playoff appearance in 1992. Past installments from 1993 through 1999 can be found here, installments from 2000 and beyond can be found here. The object is not to wallow in the misery of the Pirates, but ...
The Pirates and free agency
December 19, 2008 by
Where Is Andy Van Slyke
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From today's PG, we've got this quote (and more) from Jack Wilson: "The only thing I wish we could do was compete," he said in an extensive phone interview from his home in California. "I wish we could go out and get some more players to make our team competitive...
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