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Is Rivera the best closer of all time?
Forever a cut above Phil Rogers Chicago Tribune Let's be honest. Luis Gonzalez didn't exactly smoke his single off Mariano Rivera in Game 7 of the 2001 World Series. He fought off a cutter and fisted it just out of Derek Jeter's reach. But that's the...
Tags: Luis Gonzalez, Baseball, New York Yankees, Derek Jeter, Boston Red Sox
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Orioles' Jim Johnson, Rays' Fernando Rodney show importance of closers
When the Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays begin a three-game series Tuesday at Camden Yards, the two most effective relievers in the American League will be in uniform. It's fair to speculate that without Orioles closer Jim Johnson and Rays closer Fernando...
Tags: Baseball, Justin Verlander, Major League Baseball, Triple Crown, Customs and Tradition
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Scenes from Cooperstown
Californian has always had eyes for Ripken It was way back in 1983 when a 15-year-old California girl and her baseball fanatic father were watching the World Series on television and she became smitten with the ice-blue eyes of the Orioles' young...Tags: Baseball, Cleveland Indians, Brooks Robinson, Family, Philadelphia Phillies
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Finally, I felt the tingle
Sun ReporterIt was a sensation I'd experienced while touring plantations in South Carolina and walking the Forum in Rome, that feeling that because I was standing in a certain place, I was linked intimately with the span of human history. I stared at the bronzed...Tags: Baseball, Taj Mahal, U.S. Cellular Field, Customs and Tradition, Wrigley Field
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Tags: Lefty Grove, Bob Lemon, Cy Young, Ty Cobb, Don Sutton
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From Aase to Zito
Cal Ripken's first major-league hit came against Dennis Lamp of the Chicago White Sox on Aug. 16, 1981. His last hit came against Frank Castillo of the Boston Red Sox in Game 1 of a doubleheader on Oct. 5, 2001. Ripken finished his career with 3,184...Tags: Tim Crabtree, Rick Helling, Boston Red Sox, Kip Wells, Don Sutton
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In the rough-and-tumble baseball of the 1890s, Baltimore rose to the top with skill and guile
A century ago, Baltimore was a bustling, brawling, blue-collar city of 500,000, teeming with trolleys and privies and chimneys that belched coal smoke. The skyline was beveled by breweries and churches. Cardinal Gibbons and Enoch Pratt were people, not...
Tags: Baseball, Steaks, San Francisco Giants, John McGraw, National League
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Weaver treats Hall vote like a missed putt
Sun StaffThere was no good news for Earl Weaver on the 18th green at the Bonaventure Country Club yesterday. A 15-foot birdie putt made Weaver and his partner go deeper into their pockets -- and then the former Orioles manager found out he did not make the Hall...Tags: Baseball, Cleveland Indians, National League, Earl Weaver, Death
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Ocean View student wins award for PSA
Teenagers might face many problems these days — from demanding classes, bullying at school and in some cases trouble at home — that could lead to depression, or even suicide. It is the signs for these troubles that Jonathan Lee, a...
Tags: Baseball, Health and Safety at School, Brooks Robinson
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Win-or-go-home games becoming norm
Once upon a time, the chance to go to Great American Ball Park and watch the Reds play a win-or-go-home game in the playoffs would have been the chance of a lifetime for fans in Cincinnati. The franchise hadn't played one since 1975, and that was at...
Tags: Boston Red Sox, Omar Infante, Ian Desmond, Miguel Cabrera, Washington Nationals
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