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On This Date: Aug. 30
30 B.C.: Cleopatra committed suicide. 1780: Benedict Arnold secretly promised to surrender the West Point fort to the British army. 1905: Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut with the Detroit Tigers. 1965: Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as a...Tags: CBS Corp., Detroit Tigers, Suicide, Major League Baseball, David Letterman
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Indians broke color line, too
Associated PressLong before Jackie Robinson endured torrents of racial taunts in breaking baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, Louis Sockalexis had a bull's-eye on his back. From the day in 1897 when he first donned a uniform for the Cleveland...Tags: St. Louis Cardinals, Major League Baseball, Jacoby Ellsbury, Racism, Detroit Tigers
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Mets Get Bullpen Help, Acquire Ayala From Nats
PITTSBURGH -- The New York Mets found help for their struggling bullpen, acquiring durable right-hander Luis Ayala from the Washington Nationals on Sunday for a player to be named.
A reliable reliever for the first four years of his career, Ayala has...Tags: Gaming and Lotteries, Toronto Blue Jays, Major League Baseball, Roger Clemens, Addiction
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Questions on 'D' may have legs
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ken Williams spotted Ken Griffey Jr. in the White Sox's dugout and smiled. "Welcome to the family," the general manager said, hugging his new center fielder. One of Griffey's family chores will be tracking down fly balls....Tags: Mickey Mantle, Jermaine Dye, Major League Baseball, Ken Griffey Jr., Joe DiMaggio
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Oldtimers day will never get old
mark.herrmann@newsday.comHere's one to ponder: Twenty years from now, at Yankees Oldtimers Day, who will be the final five legends introduced, and in what order? That is a brain-teaser that former Yankees public relations executive Marty Appel likes to spring on people. It is...Tags: Mickey Mantle, Tris Speaker, George Steinbrenner, Don Mattingly, Major League Baseball
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On this day in history
On July 18, A.D. 64, the Great Fire of Rome began. In 1817 novelist Jane Austen died in Winchester, England; she was 41. In 1927 Ty Cobb hit safely for the 4,000th time in his career. In 1940 the Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominated...Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Sexual Assault, Jane Austen, Assault, Kobe Bryant
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Something old, something new ...
Rewinding the week that was, in which Papa didn't preach about honoring those wedding vows, the Brett Favre un-retirement rumors wouldn't go away (he's going to the Bears … no, the Vikings … no, the Dolphins …), and you think David Stern...Tags: Teri Hatcher, Milwaukee Brewers, Alex Rodriguez, Jason Giambi, C.C. Sabathia
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From the Cubicle: Cubs-Braves
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Am I the only who thinks last night's drilling of Alfonso Soriano stems from some lingering bad feelings that date all the way back to last season?
Remember this? Last June Soriano hit three homers in a...Tags: Mike Fontenot, Ryan Theriot, Will Ohman, Major League Baseball, Ted Lilly
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Larger-than-life Ruth built this house
mark.herrmann@newsday.comAnyone who has followed baseball for the past 90 years could have called this shot: The biggest name in the biggest issue in the run-up to the final All-Star Game at the current Yankee Stadium is a player who last took a major-league swing in 1935. Yes,...Tags: Major League Baseball, Tourism and Leisure, Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, David Ortiz
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Mordecai Brown a special memory in Indiana farmland
Chicago Tribune reporterNYESVILLE, Ind. — Go north on Parke County Road 160 East, a stretch of road between two cornfields barely wider than a lane on the Dan Ryan Expressway, and proceed slowly, deeply into Cubs lore. Anybody passing the sign warning motorists to...Tags: Mordecai Brown, St. Louis Cardinals, The Simpsons, Major League Baseball, Tourism and Leisure
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Gameday Live 79: Mets at Yankees (Game 1)
On the Yankees beatGood afternoon everyone! Marc here to blog today???s day-night, split-ballpark Subway series doubleheader. Dan Giese (1-2, 0.64) will start Game 1 for the Yankees (42-36). In his last outing, he allowed three unearned runs in 6 2/3 innings on Saturday,......Tags: New York Mets, Carlos Delgado, Alex Rodriguez, Pete Rose
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Phils hadn't played here in six decades
Q: A friend of mine said the last time prior to [March 30] that the Philadelphia Phillies played a game in the Lehigh Valley was around 1947-48 when they played a game in Egypt Memorial Park as they were signing Curt Simmons to their team. Is this true?...Tags: Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Major League Baseball, American Legion
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