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Rogers Hornsby

Baseball Bookshelf almanac, March 22

March 22, 2013

Literary birthday greetings: 1952 – Bob Costas, announcer Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball, by Costas. Broadway, 2000. Also on this date: 1962: A former member of the New York Giants requesting anonymity reveals that Bobby Thomson’s home run in the 1951 playoffs against the Brooklyn Dodgers was helped by a sign-stealing clubhouse spy. […]

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* Birthday Greetings: Rogers Hornsby and Enos “Country” Slaughter

April 27, 2010

Rogers Hornsby 1896 Enos “Country” Slaughter 1916

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On this day

March 11, 2008

in 1933, Rogers Hornsby returns to the Cardinals as a player after a six year absence (thanks to NationalPastime.com). Hornsby was not one of your happy, shining people. His reputation as a misanthrope preceded him, yet he was able to find a job because he was such an astute baseball ma who batted over .400 […]

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