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Lest We Forget: Ray Fosse

October 14, 2021

The backstop for the “Dynastic, Fantastic, Bombastic…Swingin’ A’s” (to borrow from author Jason Turbow) passed away yesterday at the age of 74 after a long battle with cancer. Here’s the obituary which appeared in East Bay Times. Fosse seems to be the poster boy when discussing “what might have been.” He was a promising catcher […]

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Lucky (?) 13

November 13, 2015 · 2 comments

I never got that. Without going into the popular history of friggatriskaidekaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th as opposed to triskaidekaphobia, fear of the number itself), isn’t 13 kind of a good number for the Jews? Bar mitzva and all? According to Baseball-Reference.com, there have been 299 players who wore the number 13 for part […]

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