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Terry Forster
In the beginning, Terry Forster must have seemed like The Natural. He made it to the major leagues as a teenager able to do anything and everything on a baseball diamond. In his first two big league...
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Steve Yeager
The Cardboard Gods Ass Backwards ABCs of Parenting Y Is for Yeager Baseball is often used to define fatherhood, and fatherhood is often used to define baseball. Somewhere it was said that baseball is...
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Charlie Hough (by guest author Pete Wingate)
The following is a guest article written by Pete Wingate. The greatest story in Wingate history is from when my older brother faced off against Charlie Hough. (Apparently Charlie’s father was some...
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Bill Bene
(This post originally appeared on The Classical.) Harold I can’t find any information on the internet about Bill Bene’s sentencing, if it has even happened yet. The latest news, that Bene pled guilty...
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Rick Rhoden
(This post originally appeared on The Classical.) The World’s Greatest Athlete Who is the world’s greatest athlete? In honor of all the recent leaping and flailing and patriotic sobbing, I will...
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Manny Mota and Ron Hodges
NLDS preview, part two (part one here) One of the last classes I took as an undergrad, many years ago, was in Chaucer, and the only thing I remember was the tale of the knight concluding with a...
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Fernando Valenzuela
This is of course the moment in Fernando Valenzuela’s indelible windup when he has first come out of his brief sky-trance. We all should approach our life’s work with this mixture of focus and...
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Ron Cey
California Sun II. While I was attempting to write something poetic about the California sun, my elderly cat here in Chicago made a strangulated sound nearby. I got up from my desk and discovered that...
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Tim Crews
Someone broke into our car last night. We didn’t realize it until my wife got a phone call from a stranger who said he found an emissions test receipt with our name on it on the sidewalk several...
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Glenn Burke
One of the many things I learned in Singled Out, Andrew Maraniss’s excellent recent biography of Glenn Burke, was that Burke was a much bigger part of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ winning the 1977...
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