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A-Rod Worth A Lot Alex Rodriguez has an
impressive career resume, which figures only to grow. Some
of his career highlights: Youngest ever to hit 300 HR, 400 HR, 450 HR, 500 HR 7 straight 40-HR seasons; 10 straight 30-HR seasons 3 50-HR seasons 2 MVPs ...
It was announced today that MSNBC anchor, SABR
member, and all-around baseball fanatic, Keith Olbermann will tell
the inside story of three decades' worth of Topps proof cards in a five-part, serialized feature to debut with the May 30 issue of Sports Collectors Digest on newsstands May 15. Readers will be treated to a narrative of nearly 30 years of baseball card lore told by Olbermann, an ...
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Mickey Mantle Latest Blog Posts [more]
Classic Interviews by Mel Allen and Howard Cosell
Posted 6 hours ago at Mike Silva's NY Baseball Digest
Classic Interviews of Mantle, Ford, Berra, and more
Posted 9 hours ago at Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog
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It's 7/7/07 ... HRD looks at some Sevens
around the game of Baseball
103-61 (.623 winning percentage), finished in 2 nd
to New York Yankees, 109-53 The first installment of
this series on tough luck second place finishers looked at the 1886 Detroit Wolverines, who won 87 of 123 games, but lost the pennant to the powerful Chicago White Sox. 75 years later, history repeated itself in the Motor City.
The latest in Neyer's trilogy takes a harder
look at some old stories. Dick Radatz, the Red
Sox phenomenon as a reliever in the 1960s, used to tell a wonderful story about coming in with the bases loaded at Fenway Park and striking out Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle and Elston Howard on 10 pitches to preserve a 2-1 victory
The Kid and The Mick Two Fridays ago
in San Francisco, Ken Griffey Jr. played in the
2,402 nd major league game, passing Mickey Mantle for 74 th on the all-time leaderboard. If he can play in 140 games this season, he'll pass Zack Wheat at 69 th with 2,410*.
Barry Bonds and Babe Ruth hold five of
the top ten seasons. And the Top Four between
them.
I just checked the calender and it's still
2007, not 1957 or 1857 so I'm wondering how
Paul Finebaum's getting away with calling Hank Aaron Bud Selig's "House Boy" in print and on the radio in Alabama.
It's time for another new regular feature from
Mondesi's House: Know Your Elders . With the sports
blogosphere being a relatively new phenomenon, I feel that a great percentage of sports history's off-field antics have gone virtually ignored. I want ...
Chipper Jones is chasing down immortals like Mike
Schmidt, Eddie Mathews, George Brett, Wade Boggs, Mickey Mantle,
Pete Rose, Eddie Murray and Tim Raines and shouldn’t bother looking back to see if a mere mortal like David Wright is nipping at his heels.
Ball Four is a raw, unadulterated and no-holds
barred piece written in a diary format by a
witty and honest intellectual, hidden amongst his more physically-focused contemporaries. The manner in which it was written provides for an easy read that can ...
The author does not apologize to anyone when
asked, “Who was your favorite player growing up?” He
even named his cat after Mickey Mantle!
Alex Rodriguez's tumultuous week off the field likely
will add another chapter Monday, with he and his
wife Cynthia both expected to officially file for divorce.
It's gotta be Ford to Berra. If not,
it's a crime. Big George doesn't deserve it.
MLB has an incredible amount of players with
double initials...Like Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Mickey
Mantle, etc..
Celebrated baseball writer Peter Golenbock, author of Dynasty:
The New York Yankees 1949-64 , has signed a
contract with John Wiley & Sons to write a biography of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, it was announced today. The book will be called The ...
in honor of the last Opening Day at
Yankee Stadium, here’s a look back at some of
the more memorable Opening Days in the Stadium’s past:
Fast Facts •Joba Chamberlain needed 38 pitches to
get out of the first inning of his first
MLB start. Chamberlain earned his first career balk along the way. •Derek Jeter went 2-for-5, tying Mickey Mantle for third place on the Yankees all-time ...
Many bemoan the new wave of stats espoused
by Bill James, Baseball Prospectus, The Hardball Times etc.
However, the light ...
Examples of successful searches Mickey Mantle Mantle, Mickey
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- SEX! Yankees! SEX! (Warning: Explicit Content)
- Not Sandy!
- Willie, Mickey, and the Duke, Talkin’ Baseball, Video
- REVIEW: Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends
- Video - Home Run Derby - 1959 - Mickey Mantle Vs Willie Mays
- Video - Natural Light Beer Commercial with Mickey Mantle
- Mickey Mantle Switches To Natural Light- 1980
- Yankee great Murcer dies of brain cancer
- Hard for Chipper to Shea goodbye
- John Maine’s Arm
- Thome ties Mantle on all-time HR list
- Roger Maris: You Don't Know [Blank]!
- Search for a Player - Baseball-Reference.com
- Search for a Player - Baseball-Reference.com
- The Top 10 Home Runs of All-Time
- ESPN Page 2 - Neel: Bonds, Mantle and disappointment
- RODRIGUEZ SEEMS A LOCK TO JOIN ELITE FRATERNITY | By MIKE PUMA | New York Yankees
- Mickey Mantle’s Greatest Yankee Memory
- BBTF's Newsblog Discussion :: Miami Herald: Bob Costas: Sports bloggers weave a tangled web
- Video - Home Run Derby - 1959 - Mickey Mantle Vs Willie Mays Part 2











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