Box Score 8/4: Everybody's working for the Hall of Fame weekend

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Good morning and welcome to the YB Box Score, what we're reading as we prepare for our own Hall of Fame speech one day. 

Happy birthday today to Rubinho, Jeff Gordon and Roger Clemens. On this day in 1982 Joel Youngblood managed to get hits for two teams in two different cities on the same day after a trade. 

Daily brain workout

Name every Cardinals starting quarterback since the franchise moved to Arizona. 

YB ICYMI

• Hall of Fame Week continues as Kurt Warner enters the Hall as the GOAT of perseverance. 
• Three Up, Three Down: Baseball delivers an instant classic – but why bring up the past?
• The Patriots will be special and annoying as all get-out. 
• How balancing the books revitalized the Yankees.
• One player from every team who could win the MVP in 2017. 

Around the league

• NFL: More TV viewers than ever last season amid digital offerings. [SportTechie]
• Tom Brady will be bad eventually. [FiveThirtyEight] 
• FIFA’s tech ‘experiments’ drag soccer into the modern age. [Engadget] 

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