Koufax and GREAT pitchers

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BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog found this 7/26/2008 on joeposnanski.com [flag]
Sandy Koufax is my favorite old-time pitcher — old-time, of course, referring to those gray-haired men who played before I was born. It’s all about our own reference points, isn’t it? You know what Carlin said: The highway’s jammed, not with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive, but with idiots and maniacs — those who drive slower than you are ... [link]

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Joe Posnanski Blog: Koufax and GREAT pitchers
Published 7/26/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Joe Posnanski Blog: Koufax and GREAT pitchers This shouldn’t take away at all from the legend — Koufax’s numbers are real, and they’re spectacular — he’s still my favorite old-time pitcher. But it might remind us again that so much of what we see in sports, in life, is contextual, that if Tom Brady had been drafted by Arizona he might not be Tom Brady, that if Tiger Woods had been born 50 years earlier he never would won a single PGA golf tournament, that if Dave Kingman had played his career in Boston, he might have hit 600 home runs, that if Abraham Lincoln was running for ...

Weekend Links with Jon Marthaler
Published 7/26/2008 by Michael Rand at Randball
... the real star in these here parts. Training camp, as pointless as it is for fans, points the way towards fall - and for that is given real importance. As the man said: Are you ready for some football? On with some links: *We start this week with Kansas City Star columnist Joe Posnanski, who has just been knocking the figurative ball out of the park lately. In the past week, he’s written a great deconstruction of the legend of Sandy Koufax that devolves into a treatise about the greatest pitchers of all time . He’s written a similar piece about the ...

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