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A Hall of a learning experience

January 8, 2016 · 1 comment

I was surprised when I saw the invitation from the Baseball Hall of Fame to attend their press conference introducing Mike Piazza and Ken Griffey Jr. as their newest members-elect. By my way of thinking, the ranking goes something like this: The MLB Network ESPN Sports Illustrated New York Times Wire services TV Networks Local […]

Tagged as: Baseball Hall of Fame, Ken griffey Jr., Mike Piazza, New York Athletic Club

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Congrats to the newest Hall of Famers

January 7, 2016

Piazza published a memoir, Long Shot (with Lonnie Wheeler), in 2013, but I wonder if there will be something rushed out to commemorate the honor. Same for Junior, although there really hasn’t been an “adult” book on him.

Tagged as: Ken griffey Jr., Mike Piazza

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National Pastime Radio

July 28, 2014

Among the other things I’ve neglected to post recently was the cornucopia of recent NPR programs featuring baseball, in one form or another. On All-Star Game Tuesday (July 15) Leonard Lopate interviewed Ken Griffey Sr., author of Big Red: Baseball, Fatherhood, and My Life in the Big Red Machine You can listen to that segment […]

Tagged as: Alex Rodriguez, Cincinnati Reds, How to Do Everything, Ken griffey Jr., Ken Griffey Sr., Performance Enhancing Drugs, Peter Sagal, steroids, Wait Wait Don't Te;; Me

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An ode to Homer is Extra Hot Great

April 3, 2012

I have a handful of podcasts I listen to religiously, mostly on my way to work. It’s very ritualistic. I start each Monday with Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. From then on it’s Pardon the Interruption and Extra Hot Great Minis, a scaled down, one-topic version of Extra Hot Great, one of my favorite pop […]

Tagged as: Darryl Strawberry, Don Mattingly, Extra Hot Great, Jose Canseco, Ken griffey Jr., Mike Scioscia, Ozzie Smith, podcasts, Roger Clemens, Steve Sax, The Simpsons, Wade Boggs

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* The right attitude, by Ken Griffey Jr.

June 19, 2008

From the Online Media Daily Web site: Nike created a print ad that ran last week in USA Today, the Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer and the Cincinnati Enquirer that commemorates Ken Griffey Jr.’s 600th home run. “As long as I have fun playing, the stats will take care of themselves,” reads the animated ad featuring Griffey […]

Tagged as: home runs, Ken griffey Jr.

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