Mid-Season Awards Series: Most Valuable Players

Josh Hamilton to Take on 71-Year Old Man

Foul Balls found this 7/8/2008 on sports.aol.com

Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton may have taken the former #1 pick with all the potential in the world but got involved with drugs before dropping out of baseball and re-emerging with the Reds before being traded to the Rangers and becoming a ...

Home run leader Utley tops current field for Derby

Phillies Nation found this 7/7/2008 on sports.espn.go.com

Josh Hamilton, Dan Uggla, Chase Utley and Lance Berkman are four of the eight players who will compete in the State Farm Home Run Derby competition the night before the All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium.

Diamond Rundown – Edition Fourteen

m_taylor13 posted 7/8/2008 from seamheads.com

Facts, figures and other tidbits from the fourteenth week of the ’08 major league baseball season. According to Elias I : Texas’s Josh Hamilton notched his 80 th RBI in the third inning of the Rangers 2-1 win over the Yankees. Hamilton’s 80 RBI was the most by the end of June since Carlos Delgado plated 89 in 2003, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Notable Quotable I : ...

Ten Trades I’d Like To See

DaveKingman posted 7/9/2008 from www.dugoutcentral.com

Good one on the Padres trading Adrian Gonzalez to the Mariners for Sexson and Beltre. The reasoning? Becuause Gonzalez is showing up all the other Padres by actually hitting. Sexson and Beltre wouldn't do that.

Sports: Rangers' Hamilton gets his house in order

SportsHubLA found this 7/7/2008 on www.ocregister.com

> All troubled athletes come to a place where the road separates. Choose one path, and you're selling out stadiums. Choose the other, and you're sweeping them out. Josh Hamilton's consecutive string of wrong choices sent him to his knees, with a ...