Category: Baseball
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OT: My All-Time Baseball Team
A few buddies and I were debating our “all-time” baseball team. This is going back to when we started watching (early 80s). Nobody we haven’t gown up with is allowed: C: Joe Mauer1B: Albert Pujols2B: Joe MorganSS: Alex Rodriguez3B: Mike SchmidtRF: Ichiro Suzuki (torn betwen him, Reggie Jackson, Vlad and…
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OT: Tim Raines Should Be in the Baseball Hall of Fame
The Hall of Fame voters missed the boat by not electing Tim Raines today. Even more atrocious is the fact that he got less than 25 percent of the votes. Here is a good article making the case for Raines: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/hof09/columns/story?columnist=law_keith&id=3825493 .
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OT: George Vecsey’s Baseball: A History of America’s Favorite Game
One of my New Year Resolutions was to read one book per week. This week, I read George Vecsey’s Baseball: A History of America’s Favorite Game. I would highly recommend this book to anybody who is a sports or baseball fan. While it’s not an in depth historical account of…