Not that I ever watched him on the show. Or the show ever. But for what it’s worth, here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uptY1ZFSlGk&feature=player_embedded
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November 8, 2012 · 0 comments
Not that I ever watched him on the show. Or the show ever. But for what it’s worth, here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uptY1ZFSlGk&feature=player_embedded
Tagged as: Jeff Kent
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August 21, 2012 · 0 comments
Former MLB second baseman Jeff Kent will be one of the contestants on the new season of Survivor, which begins Spet. 19. I still won’t watch this show.
Tagged as: Jeff Kent
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January 11, 2012 · 0 comments
I don’t know if it’s my imagination, but it seems every year the controversy rises up about who is worthy to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. By now you know that Barry Larkin was the only player voted in by the writers to the Class of 2012. Maybe it’s some sort of historical [...]
Tagged as: Barry Larkin, Jeff Kent, Jimmy Duggan, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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July 26, 2008 · 0 comments
From Onlyinhouston.org. There are players — such as the Astros’ perennial favorite — who have magnificent careers, do all the right things, etc., but fail to put up those lofty numbers that Hall of Famers achieve. So should he be a candidate? Where does he fit in? Jeff Kent, for example, is a former MVP [...]
Tagged as: Craig Biggio, Hall of Fame, Jeff Kent
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In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
Brittle Innings, by Michael Bishop
The American Diamond: A Documentary of the Game of Baseball, by Branch Rickey
Congratulations to Charles P. of Long Island City, NY, winner of the most recent Facebook Fan drawing, The Might Have Been: A Novel, by Joseph Schuster.
Next up: Long Shot, by Mike Piazza with Lonnie Wheeler.
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What I just read:
Southern League: A True Story of Baseball, Civil Rights, and the Deep South's Most Compelling Pennant Race, by Larry Colton.
Well-intentioned, but somewhat disappointing in delivery of the intended message. B-.
What I'm reading now
Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age, by Allen Barra.
First Impressions: Too soon to tell.
What I'm RE-reading now
Play for a Kingdom by Thomas Dyja.
What's next:
Gil Hodges: The Brooklyn Bums, the Miracle Mets, and the Extraordinary Life of a Baseball Legend, by Danny Peary and Tom Clavin.
Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game, by John Sexton
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