Craig Biggio, the last player to join the 3,000-hit club, turns 45 today. The book on him: Biggio: The Final Game. Honorary mention: Scott Hatteberg. Who’s he, you ask? Basically, Hatteberg — who walked 562 and struck out just 503 times and had a .361 OBP over his 14-year career — was one of the […]
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From the June 1 issue of Sports Illustrated, this quote by Scott Hatteberg, who was featured in Micheal Lewis’ book Moneyball, soon to be a major (?) motion picture: Former A’s first baseman, on being cast as himself in the film Moneyball: “I don’t know how you can screw up playing yourself, but I’m afraid […]
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