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An ode to Homer is Extra Hot Great

April 3, 2012

I have a handful of podcasts I listen to religiously, mostly on my way to work. It’s very ritualistic. I start each Monday with Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. From then on it’s Pardon the Interruption and Extra Hot Great Minis, a scaled down, one-topic version of Extra Hot Great, one of my favorite pop […]

Tagged as: Darryl Strawberry, Don Mattingly, Extra Hot Great, Jose Canseco, Ken griffey Jr., Mike Scioscia, Ozzie Smith, podcasts, Roger Clemens, Steve Sax, The Simpsons, Wade Boggs

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Homer at the Bat marks 20th anniversary

February 21, 2012

Where does the time go? This past Sunday, we celebrated the 500th episode of The Simpsons.(personally, I thought it was only meh). But Chris Jaffe over at Hardball Times noted that yesterday was 20 years since the softball-centric Homer at the Bat — with its own set of All-Stars — premiered. Among the athletes playing […]

Tagged as: Darryl Strawberry, Don Mattingly, Jose Canseco, Ken Griffey, Ozzie Smith, Roger Clemens, Steve Sax, The Simpsons, Wade Boggs

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Summer reading for the New York beach crowd

August 2, 2011

Greg Spira passed along this link to an NJ.com review of five New York-centric books, including (with a “symbolic” thumbs up-thumbs down): 1961: The Inside Story of the Maris-Mantle Home Run Chase, by Phil Pepe (-) Donnie Baseball: The Definitive Biography of Don Mattingly, by Mike Shalin (-) Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The […]

Tagged as: Derek Jeter, Don Mattingly, Joe DiMaggio, John Thorn, Mickey Mantle, New York, New York Yankees, Roger Maris

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Literary birthday greetings: Donnie Baseball and The Golden Greek

April 20, 2011

Don Mattingly turns the big 5-Oh today. Donnie Baseball: The Definitive Biography of Don Mattingly Don Mattingly’s Hitting Is Simple: The ABC’s of Batting .300 Also born this date in 1929, Harry Agganis, the Golden Greek, who tied way too young, at the age of 26 due to massive pulmonary embolism. Harry Agganis, ” the […]

Tagged as: Don Mattingly, Harry Agganis

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One-a-day: Tom Hoffarth

April 2, 2011

Just like the vitamins, only with baseball books. April is that time of year when our old friend Tom — who writes about sports and sports media for the Los Angeles Daily News — does his “30 baseball books in 30 days” bit. And, just like last year, we’ll be posting his considerations within these […]

Tagged as: Don Mattingly, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, Tom Hoffarth

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