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Kudos for the Star-Ledger and their sidebar for separating World Series records from the rest of the post-season pack. Derek Jeter now has 50 hits in the World Series, which moves him into fifth place. Andy Pettitte has five wins, good for forth place with a bunch of others. I bring this up because there […]

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(…Because you can keep those little pocket schedules on your bookshelf.) I am still waiting for some sports pundit to start off about the possibility of having three inning baseball games. It worked out pretty well for the Phillies and the fans. Started at 8:30, over before 10:30. Might even bring the young fans back […]

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In his May 8 column, Carl Bialik, aka, The Numbers Guy, offers “a reading list of articles about sports numbers, from the true distance of legendary home runs to a formula for measuring the chance of a basketball comeback.” The baseball portion of the piece includes: 565: The number of feet Mickey Mantle’s home run […]

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