usatoday.com - 7/10/2008
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The Los Angeles Coliseum has honored presidents, popes and other historic figures with bronze plaques on its famed archways. ...
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... with your swing. And the first thing they point out as an example is Bobby Abreu who won it in 2005 with a record 41 jacks - and then went on to only hit 6 in the second half. Not only that, but they think the format is to long. ...Just 18 days before being posthumously inducted into Baseball's Hall Of Fame, former Dodgers Owner Walter O'Malley will be honored with a plaque at Dodgers Stadium. He was instrumental in bringing the Dodgers west from Brooklyn. Here's what Peter O'Malley had to say about the plaque honoring his father. "He wasn't much for ...
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NY Post: Sports 7/10/2008
LOS ANGELES - Don Mattingly will resume his duties as the Dodgers' hitting coach after the All-Star break. Mattingly, hired as part of Joe Torre's staff during the offseason, asked to be switched from hitting coach to major league special...
