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Baseball off-season can be tough on fans who see favorite players jump ship
The most intriguing game that baseball plays is not hitting and pitching. It is musical chairs. This is the sport's funny season. But unlike golf, where the funny season was simply a time for Freddie Couples to make more money for Christmas shopping,...
Tags: Boston Red Sox, Don Drysdale, Baseball, Jered Weaver, Torii Hunter
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18 holes with ... Joe Buck
After Joe Buck completed a round at the annual celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe a few years back, playing partner Carson Palmer asked him, "How do you not curse on the air?" It's a good thing Fox pays him to call World Series and NFC title games...
Tags: Football, National Football League, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, National Football Conference, George Halas
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Do not confuse antique tobacco jars with cookie jars
The first U.S. Surgeon General warning on tobacco products was required in 1964. Tobacco was labeled as bad for your health. Americans were soon using fewer tobacco products, like cigarettes, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco and cigars. In the late...Tags: Auction Service, Otto Graham, Tobacco Products, Japan, World War II (1939-1945)
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Giants leave fate to Zito
ST. LOUIS — Six years. That's how long it has been since Barry Zito has pitched the kind of game he's going to need Friday night, and he hasn't been cryogenically frozen in the interim. He has been getting older, losing velocity off his fastball...
Tags: Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves, Carlos Beltran, Baseball, Jon Jay
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Survivor of one of baseball's biggest tragedies recalls crash
Now 85, minor-league professional baseball player Bernie Gerl of Joliet, Ill., saw the best and worst - the very worst - of times during this week 64 years ago. On July 22, 1948, Gerl was riding a baseball high as he was the starting catcher for the...
Tags: Forests, Auction Service, Hospitals and Clinics, Spike Jones, Culture
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Vin Scully, pitch perfect for the Dodgers
Oh, that voice! It comes out of the TV, it comes out of the radio, it comes out of the man sitting across from me in the cafe behind the press box at Dodger Stadium. Courtly and indefatigable, Vin Scully has been calling Dodger games since Harry Truman...
Tags: Football, Gertrude Stein, Ted Lilly, Baseball, New York Mets
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Teammates show Thome some mercy...and respect
The Phillies FilesIf you're wondering just how much respect Jim Thome's teammates have for him, this just about says it all. After Thome hit a pinch-hit, walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning that gave the Phillies a 7-6...... -
Chipper Jones' legacy honors loyalty, longevity
ST. PETERSBURG — He is a throwback superstar without the petty pretense and the explosive twitter account, atrocious spelling optional.
Chipper Jones is simple, straight-forward and powerful, like a cup of black coffee. For 19 consecutive years...Tags: Dwight Howard, LeBron James, National Basketball Association, Spring Training, Atlanta Braves
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Power rankings: No. 3 Rangers
No. 3 Rangers: 28th in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Yankees.
One pitch away from a World Series parade in October. Tens of thousands to go in February, and that doesn't count those thrown on the back fields and in the batting cages....Tags: Joe Nathan, Baseball, Matt Cain, Ron Washington, Colby Lewis
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Power rankings: No. 11 Cardinals
No. 11 Cardinals: 20th in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Red Sox.
The NFL has gone to bed for its six-month nap, leaving an over-under-loving society in a state of withdrawal. But all is not lost.
You can apply that betting concept...Tags: Matt Holliday, Carlos Beltran, Baseball, Albert Pujols, St. Louis Cardinals
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St. Louis comes to grips with Albert Pujols' departure
The Fabulous ForumSt. Louis, in a phrase, feels jilted. Albert Pujols, the slugger whose decade with the St. Louis Cardinals was capped with a World Series win this year, is now coming to the Angels, and many Cardinals fans aren't happy. Missouri...... -
Tommy Gioiosa: Pete Rose’s chauffeur on the night he made history
En Fuego - Orlando SentinelRose earned all of it, first bumping off Stan Musial and his all-time hits record in the National League, before getting to Cobb. Gioiosa was there that night, too, after driving 440 miles the night before from Cleveland to Philadelphia....
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