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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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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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
The thing I love about Curt Schilling is that he has lived up to his name better than any ballplayer since Home Run Baker. (I can't speak to how well Zip Zabel lived up to his name). If there's one thing Curt can do even better than pitching, it's shilling.
And ...
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