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NEW YORK -- Roger Clemens returned to the
New York Yankees , making a dramatic announcement to
fans from the owner's box during Sunday's game against the Seattle Mariners . Clemens' contract will be a pro-rated salary of $28 million dollars, ...
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April 25, 2007 Alex Rodriguez has spent most
of his Yankees career playing an unfamiliar position
not third base, but designated scapegoat. Despite averaging 40 homers, 119 RBI, and a line with a .299 average, .396 OBP, and .549 SLG from ...
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Summary: Triple-A call-up Tyler Clippard gets his first
win in his first MLB start by going six
innings while allowing a run and striking out six. Joining the club: Clippard joins Jim Beattie (1978) and Rich Beck (1965) as the only Yankees starters in ...
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I'm pleased to announce that today marks the
beginning of an extended series of correspondences with Alex
Belth of Bronx Banter that will be unfolding over the next several weeks as we discuss The New York Yankees: 1977 World Series Collector's ...
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Eliot Asinof (1919-2008) and the Mystery of Rocky
Perone The obituaries have been all too full of
familiar names in recent weeks, men whose life's work brought me a great deal of joy, countless hours of entertainment, and plenty of food for thought. ...
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Red Wing Norm Tell me please, how many
of the players McLain blasts, spent time in prison
? A 30 game winner is nice, but character and integrity in life means SO much more. Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:14 am rjlally2000 when was the last time any of...
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You call that a four-consecutive-homer onslaught? Puh-lease. While
a few of my Baseball Prospectus colleagues were frothing
at the mouth that the Red Sox' back-to-back-to-back-to-back jacks last night was something they'd never seen, I could only ...
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Once again -- the tenth time, by my
count -- I'll be hosting a chat at Baseball
Prospectus on Wednesday at 1 PM Eastern. Dodgers, Yankees, Hit List, JAWS, The Sopranos finale, the eternal genius of Tony La Russa, anything but the draft -- you're ...
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The following is a response to a blog
entry by one Paul White, a writer I had
never heard of until Tuesday afternoon but one who took no prisoners in dishing out the most scathing attack I've received in nearly seven years of writing about baseball. ...
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With Yankee Stadium II in its final year,
the nostalgia is already getting a bit thick, as
everybody and their grandmother pens their ode not only to the House that Ruth Built, but to its shabby cousin in Queens, also in its final season. Luckily, ...
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Less than two weeks after the passing of
Kurt Vonnegut, the world of letters lost another giant
on Monday when David Halberstam was killed in a car accident near San Francisco. Halberstam was 73 years old but had shown no sign of slowing down; the ...
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Yankees-Red Sox games in the Bronx are always
tense affairs, but Saturday's contest ratcheted the tension through
the roof. For starters, the Yanks came in riding a seven-game losing streak, their longest since the end of the 2000 season (their 0-fer ...
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Summary: Homers from David Wright, Carlos Delgado and
Damion Easley led the Mets to a 5-4 victory
and ended the Brewers' win streak at six games. Sure thing: Delgado went yard for the second straight night, giving him 410 homers in his 14-year career. ...
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I'm pleased to announce that today marks the
beginning of an extended series of correspondences with Alex
Belth of Bronx Banter that will be unfolding over the next several weeks as we discuss The New York Yankees: 1977 World Series Collector's ...
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Dear Alex, Oy, it feels like ages since
you responded to my first volley, which gets at
one of the drawbacks of a set as massive as this -- particularly during baseball season, finding the time for a three-hour dig through the archives takes some ...
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"Kick in the idiot box and wait for
the news in the history books/ It's like junkies
who hate their heroin." -- d. boon, lead singer of the Minutemen, "Shit You Hear at Parties" I give up. I'm done. To hell with the 2007 Yankees, and while I'm at ...
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Reason #10,001 why Vin Scully is the greatest
announcer ever, from the broadcast of last night's game:
"Yes, the Phillies have lost 10,000, but it's not been all beer and skittles for the Dodgers either." When I heard this, at first I thought the ...
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Our long national nightmare is finally over. On
Tuesday night, Barry Bonds finally hit his 756th home
run, topping Hank Aaron's record, a record that stood for over 33 years as perhaps the most hallowed statistical accomplishment in the annals of ...
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When one door closes, another opens, goes the
old saying. Today's news not only finds Joe Girardi
accepting the Yankees' offer to manage, but the man he replaced and the man he beat out headed to the dugout of the Dodgers. Reports out of LA have the ...
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So much going on and so little time
for me to write. After more than seven months
of waiting, my wife and I finally closed on our Brooklyn apartment and will be moving this weekend, thus ending my nearly 13 years in the East Village. The timing isn't ...
Clemens announced to crowd he'll play for Yanks