Friday, February 17th, 2012
It seems odd now that when I was a kid, I didn't actually like "The Kid."
But Gary Carter was a Met. That meant he was pretty much always beating the Cubs, and then smiling about it the whole damn time. More than anything on the field, it was that smile ...
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
It's just been one of those years.
My favorite football team's biggest rival won the Super Bowl and still hasn't lost a game in 2011. My favorite baseball team's biggest rival won the World Series. Both got into the playoffs thanks to wins over that rival in the final week of ...
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
World's Greatest Living Peorian Jim Thome (apologies to Joe Girardi) moved up in baseball's record books on Monday night by becoming the eighth player in big-league history to hit his 600th career home run. There will be no HBO special to capture the chase to this accomplishment (as far as ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
The debate is over. After nine tries, Andre Dawson finally took his rightful place in Cooperstown on Sunday.
There's all the stats you know about -- an eight-time All-Star with 2,774 hits and 1,591 RBIs, plus one of only three men with 400 homers and 300 stolen bases -- but did ...
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
I will have a much longer, much more insufferable post on the trip I took to Cooperstown sometime after the weekend but I just had to post this one picture that pretty much defined my trip. I've never been accused of being a sentimental guy, but when I finally found ...
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