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All-time Hall of Fame voting percentages
The Associated PressPlayer, Year, Cast, Votes, Pct. Tom Seaver 1992 430 425 98.84 Nolan Ryan 1999 497 491 98.79 Cal Ripken Jr. 2007 545 537 98.53 Ty Cobb 1936 226 222 98.23 George Brett 1999 497 488 98.19 Hank Aaron 1982 415 406 97.83 Tony Gwynn 2007 545 532 97.61...Tags: Honus Wagner, Lou Boudreau, Frankie Frisch, Joe Medwick, Eddie Mathews
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Hall of Fame year-by-year inductees
The Associated Press(BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; VC: Elected by the Veterans Committee; NL: Elected by the Veterans Committee based on Negro league career): 1936 -- BBWAA: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Honus...Tags: Bill Veeck, Lou Boudreau, Tim Keefe, Kirby Puckett, Pee Wee Reese
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Scoreboard
TV SPORTS Women's College Basketball-Michigan at Purdue, 5:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Penn State at Northwestern, 7:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Idaho at Nevada, 10 p.m. (ESPNU) Men's College Basketball-Xavier at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); Villanova at...Tags: Mariano Rivera, Bill Veeck, Minor League Baseball, Gerald Laird, John Jay
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10 things you might not know about birthdays
Tribune staff reporterSome impressive birthdays have been celebrated lately, including the 200th of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, who were born on the same day in 1809. Let's blow out 10 more candles to celebrate these facts: 1. A "leapling" or "leaper" is a person born...Tags: Tyco International Limited, Adolf Hitler, Birthday Cake, Ice Cream, Marilyn Monroe
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The first All-Star game
Tribune staff reporterWhile the "Century of Progress" World's Fair was in full swing, anevent occurred on this day that changed baseball history: the first All-Star game. A few months earlier, Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly had gone to Col. Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the...Tags: American League, Charlie Gehringer, Lou Gehrig, National League, Robert R. McCormick
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The called shot
Tribune staff reporterDespite the decades, the debate will not die. Did Babe Ruth call his shot or not? It happened--if it did happen--while Ruth was at the plate at Wrigley Field in the third game of the 1932 World Series. It was a 4-4 score. The New York Yankees had won the...Tags: New York Yankees, Death, Chicago Cubs, World Series, Baseball
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99 things every real Cubs fan should know
What's the Curse of the Billy Goat?
It started during the 1945 World Series, which pitted the Cubs against the Detroit Tigers. The Cubs refused to let Billy Goat Tavern owner William Sianis bring his lucky goat inside Wrigley Field for Game 4. An angry...Tags: Bill Veeck, Lou Boudreau, The Beach Boys, Basketball, Defense
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Ask Paul Sullivan
Ask Paul returns to answer questions about Dusty's reprieve, the snub of Sammy, how to handle abuse from those haughty Royals fans and more. Hearing that Derrek Lee's re-entry onto the DL ensures Baker will remain until year's end is not only...Tags: Frank Robinson, Juan Pierre, Major League Baseball, Neifi Perez, Alex Rodriguez
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From the cubicle
ChicagoSports.comWe're going to try our hardest to channel the ghost of Old Tomato Face himself, Cubs Hall of Famer Gabby Hartnett, as the Cubs and Yankees get it on in a rematch of the 1938 World Series--or as some might call it: Jeter vs. The Cheater. No surprise...Tags: Mariano Rivera, Major League Baseball, Mike Remlinger, World Series, Wrigley Field
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Cubs finally get All-Star manager
Associated PressFor the first time in more than a half-century, a Chicago Cub is in line to be an All-Star manager. New Cubs manager Dusty Baker is expected to get the honor at next year's game at Comiskey Park in Chicago as reward for leading the San Francisco...Tags: Casey Stengel, Fenway Park, Connie Mack Jr, World Series, Management Change
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