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wezen-ball.com - 3 days ago
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Today I'm travelling down to St. Louis to
visit some family that I haven't seen in years,...
and won't be back in town until Sunday evening. It should be a fun time, what with the family-visiting, seeing the city, and even going to a Blues-Red Wings game on Saturday night. I'm really looking ...
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Holiday Travels
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wezen-ball.com - 4 days ago
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There aren't a lot of things that Duane
Kuiper is famous for. San Francisco Giants fans, of...
course, know him as half of their broadcast team, alongside Mike Krukow, and older Cleveland Indians fan might remember him from their 1970s heyday. Besides that, most baseball fans across the country ...
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One (1) Career Homer
wezen-ball.com - 5 days ago
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(Don't worry, this eventually gets to baseball... I
promise.) As a kid, my mom once made the...
mistake of incorrectly answering aloud a multiplication problem from her teacher. Apparently, the teacher had once answered the same question wrong, too, and was subsequently embarrassed into learning ...
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Baseball Prescriptivism
wezen-ball.com - 8 days ago
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Yesterday was a seminal day in baseball history.
When it was announced that Chris Carpenter finished second...
in the National League Cy Young voting despite not being named on two ballots - yes, two whole ballots - the game of baseball was irreparably changed, and not for the better. It may be ...
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The Carpenter Travesty
wezen-ball.com - 13 days ago
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Heading into Monday afternoon's announcement of the 2009
American and National League Rookies of the Year, there...
have been 124 past winners of the award. For the first two years - beginning in 1947 with Jackie Robinson - the award was given to the outstanding rookie in the major leagues, but it ...
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What does it mean to win the Rookie of the Year?
wezen-ball.com - 15 days ago
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Earlier this week, the wonderful "Sesame Street" celebrated
its 40th anniversary. Which is just amazing if you...
think about it: "Sesame Street" has been around as long as the Kansas City Royals or the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals. When it debuted in November 1969, Willie ...
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Sesame Street Video Fun
wezen-ball.com - 17 days ago
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Today is Veterans' Day, and I wanted to
take the time to thank every veteran out there...
for all that you have done for us and for all that you have sacrificed for us. It is a tough, seemingly-thankless job, and we all appreciate what you do. So thank you. I also wanted to take the time here at ...
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Thoughts on Veterans' Day
wezen-ball.com - 18 days ago
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Since 1901, there have been only three players
born in Germany to reach the Major Leagues. The...
first two were born before the Cold War era got well-underway in 1950: Heinz Becker was born in Berlin in 1915, and played in 152 games for the Cubs and Indians between 1943 and 1947, during the ...
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Der Baseball
wezen-ball.com - 19 days ago
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Not that I have to remind anyone here,
but today marks the start of the first full...
week of the baseball off-season. With the end of the World Series, all that we have to look forward to over the long, cold winter will be MVP awards, Hall of Fame voting, and the hot stove. Meaningful baseball is ...
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At the (Baseball) Movies with Roger Ebert
wezen-ball.com - 22 days ago
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2009, Yankees over Phillies (click the image for
a larger size) This was the sight that greeted...
New York Times subscribers yesterday morning after Hideki Matsui powered the Yankees past the Phillies for the World Series crown. It was the twenty-seventh time that the Yankees were World ...
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The Yankees on the Front Page
wezen-ball.com - 23 days ago
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Yesterday afternoon, in anticipation of the Phillies/Yankees Game
6, SportsCenter came up with a list of the...
ten best Game Six moments in World Series history. Joe Carter's series-winning, walk-off homer off of Mitch Williams in 1993 was their number one moment, but there were plenty of other ...
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A Lesson from Game 6
wezen-ball.com - 24 days ago
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Happy November everyone! As we prepare for Game
6 tonight - it's still hard to believe that...
it's November 4 and we haven't even played Game 6 of the World Series yet - I just wanted to take a few minutes to point out a couple of things that I found pretty cool. 1924 and You Are There! - ...
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Other Good Reading
wezen-ball.com - 29 days ago
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There's plenty of talk today, as there has
been all month, about the poor umpiring in these...
playoffs. In last night's Game 2, we saw Ryan Howard pull off a 3-4 double play after the first base umpire Brian Gorman incorrectly said that Howard caught the ball on the fly. Replays seemed to show ...
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Decades of Blown Calls and "Bad" Umpires
wezen-ball.com - 29 days ago
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The first two games of the World Series
have been great. Strong pitching performances have kept the...
games close late, and most of the scoring has managed to be exciting. The umpires were a little questionable last night but, in the end, the Yankees earned their victory. With the Series back in ...
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Video Fun Friday: South Park Makes the Playoffs
wezen-ball.com - 30 days ago
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Before I forget and it gets too late
to do anything, I just wanted to mention that...
I'm nominated for Best Baseball Blog over at the First Annual Bloguin Awards . Yeah, it's exciting. The Bloguin network was born only 1 year ago with a grand total of four basketball blogs. In that short ...
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