As you may have notice, these entries have been falling off in the last several weeks. My apologies. A new full-time job — very different from what I had been doing as the sports and features editor of a weekly community newspaper in suburban New Jersey — has put new and strange demands on my […]
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Baseball Hall of Fame,
baseball statistics,
Boston Red Sox,
Chicago Cubs,
David Ortiz,
David Ross,
Ivan Rodriguez,
Michael Lewis,
Rick Ankiel,
Ted Williams,
World Series
As you may have notice, these entries have been falling off in the last several weeks. My apologies. A new full-time job — very different from what I had been doing as the sports and features editor of a weekly community newspaper in suburban New Jersey — has put new and strange demands on my […]
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Chicago Cubs,
David Ross,
Ivan Rodriguez,
Michael Lewis,
Oakland As,
Pitching,
Rick Ankiel,
statistics,
Ted Williams,
World Series
Mazel tov to Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, and Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez on their election to the Baseball Hall of Fame. That’s the good news. The (relatively) bad news is that they played for teams in markets that don’t necessarily lend themselves to glamor and glitz. Bagwell spent his entire 15-year career with the Houston Astros. […]
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Hall of Fame,
Ivan Rodriguez,
Jeff Bagwell,
Tim Raines
The new Eight Men Out, according to the NY Daily News (out of Hall of Fame consideratio, that is): Alex Rodriguez Barry Bonds Roger Clemens Mark McGwire Raphael Palmiero Ivan Rodriguez Gary Sheffield Sammy Sosa
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Alex Rodriguez,
Barry Bonds,
Gary Sheffield,
Hall of Fame,
Ivan Rodriguez,
Mark McGwire,
Raphael Palmiero,
Roger Clemens,
Sammy Sosa