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Letters: Everyone needed a break
Manager Joe Torre's record for the first half of the season is a mixed bag.
The good: If you look close enough, you'll spot a faint halo over Torre's cap that intimidates The Times' piranhas (er, scribes). He handles pitchers well, plays "little ball"...Tags: Tommy Lasorda, Barry Bonds, Public Employees, Andruw Jones, Major League Baseball
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Reading between the lines of Dodgers' demise
Special to The TimesJuly 12, 2008 Branch Rickey disciple Al Campanis wrote "The Dodger Way to Play Baseball" in 1954. Campanis was scouting director on his way to becoming general manager, and his book, both symbolically and in practicality, became the organization's...Tags: Rupert Murdoch, Walter Alston, Bill Russell, Major League Baseball, Mike Piazza
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Long Memory: Hartford Native Freddy Schmidt, 92, Talks Baseball
By DOM AMORE / Courant Staff WriterThree years ago, Freddy Schmidt was confined to the leather couch in his living room, tubes and contraptions sticking out everywhere, unable to taste anything, or eat much at all. "I lost 10 pounds," he said, "and the doctor says, 'No, Freddy, you have...Tags: World Series, St. Louis Cardinals, Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball, Chicago Cubs
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ESPN ventures into Tribeca Film Festival
neil.best@newsday.comSomewhere uptown, Chris Berman was busy prepping for the draft, perhaps by spraying Mel Kiper Jr.'s hair. And in Bristol, Stephen A. no doubt was screaming about Shaq or Dirk or Flip. Friday night in Tribeca, though, a less visible, more grown-up...Tags: Tribeca Film Festival, Will Ferrell, Shaquille O'Neal, Jackie Robinson, Film Festivals
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Robert Redford, ESPN Team on Jackie Robinson Biopic
Zap2It.comESPN Films will team up with Robert Redford's production company on an upcoming biopic about baseball pioneers Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey. The Robinson-Rickey project, which has been in development for some time with a variety of directors, will...Tags: Spike Lee, Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball, Norman Jewison, ESPN
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Dodgers headed way off-base
Special to The TimesThe 61st spring encampment at the former Navy base that became Dodgertown in 1948 will be the last for the Dodgers in Vero Beach, Fla., another in the chain of broken links to Brooklyn. The Dodgers -- whose pitchers and catchers report to camp Thursday...Tags: Walter Alston, Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson, Don Sutton, Eric Karros
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Is America ready for a real black president?
South Florida Sun-SentinelSOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL OP-ED ONLINE Is America Ready for a Real Black President? By Norm Vance Are you ready for a peanut butter and hamburger sandwich? Not sure? Yet someone in Bluffton, Indiana insists it was a favorite of her father and herself....Tags: Jackie Robinson, Colleges and Universities, Major League Baseball, Sociology, Ralph Nader
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The Sugar Kings
bcassidy@newsday.comIt may have been the last time that Fidel Castro was united in a cause with American athletes. The motivation was self-serving -- Cuban pride for Fidel and a desire to return to the major leagues for the Americans – but the road to a championship...Tags: Fidel Castro, World Series, Major League Baseball, World Boxing Council, Imperial and Royal Matters
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'The Rise and Fall of Dodgertown'
Special to The TimesMarch 3, 2008 Every February, without fail, my father calls with the same message: "Pitchers and catchers report." Four little words that, to baseball fans, means the winter-long hiatus without hardball is nigh over and that, finally, all again is...Tags: Rupert Murdoch, Tommy Lasorda, Walter Alston, Sales, San Francisco Giants
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Thrift wove tales, teams
sun reporterTim Donner and his radio partner, Syd Thrift, were walking into the All-Star FanFest in Pittsburgh in July when they were stopped by a memorabilia dealer. "There's Syd Thrift," the vendor bellowed. "The man who invented baseball." "It could have been...Tags: Mike Flanagan, Barry Bonds, Toronto Blue Jays, Major League Baseball, Moises Alou
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