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Cooperstown: Saturday Evening
Had the great pleasure of joining the family of 2009 Frick Award Winner Tony Kubek on its private tour of the Hall (and lunch) and while private means private, I can share some of the artifacts and one...
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The Greatest Cooperstown Find (Updated)
For more than 25 years, Dan Patrick and I have had the same debate. We’ll be talking about the game’s All-Time Greats, and I’ll throw out the names of Honus Wagner or Buck Ewing or Christy Mathewson,...
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Milton Bradley Makes The Worst Teams In The World
Jack Zduriencik was one move away from completely rebuilding a shaken franchise in a little over thirteen months. And then he made the move. How much easier could this be to understand? You do not...
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Swinging At The Future; Whiffing At The Past
Two books to address today, one brand new, one kinda. BASEBALL PROSPECTUS 2010 Edited by Steven Goldman and Christina Kahrl John Wiley, $25.95 Two caveats: the publisher is putting out my next book,...
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Hall Of Fame…Coaches?
As the Hall of Fame induction looms, something I heard on a Cardinals’ broadcast the other day inspired me to hit the books. The gist of the discussion, which was dead serious and included not even a...
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The Cardinals Rally To Overcome…The Cardinals?
Was that the greatest World Series game ever played? For games in which a team, having put itself on the precipice of elimination because of managerial and/or strategic incompetence, then stumbles all...
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Seaver And Mathewson
On his MLB Network program Studio 42, Bob Costas tonight referenced a blog post here from 2009, and asked Tom Seaver if he was aware that I’d found a game-action photograph of Christy Mathewson from...
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Of Hype And Baseball Cards In The Attic (Updated)
Sometimes – whether you merit it or not – you seed the Publicity Storm Cloud just right with the chemicals and you get eight inches of rain. Such it was yesterday when a respected memorabilia auction...
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