bats.blogs.nytimes.com - 7/14/2008
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Milton Bradley, the Texas Rangers’ designated hitter, was named to his first All-Star team and will play for the American League at Yankee Stadium next week. He will contribute occasional items to the New York Times’s Bats blog about his All-Star experience. This is his first post. At about 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, I was in the clubhouse in Baltimore in the middle of a domino game with Eddie ...
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“If it was a white guy in his situation, what would they be saying?”
Bugs & Cranks —
... Bradley has agreed to occasionally write about his All-Star experience for the New York Times’ Bats blog. Read his first entry and try to explain how Bradley is different than Josh Hamilton and how Bradley is deserving of abnormal treatment by the media. Then ask yourself how you feel about being fed a distorted reality. And finally, ask yourself what you are going to do about it. Hopefully our answer isn’t the same as what most people are willing to do about Hamilton’s quote and the title of this piece. ...
Pop your collar, it's Hump Day
Bob's Blog - Live from Lewisville —
... shared by fathers and sons. I was constantly told baseball is clear cut: You catch, you throw. Fortunately for all of us, Brooks Robinson caught baseballs incredibly well. Whitey Ford threw them well. And the likes of Frank Robinson and Reggie Jackson hit them extremely well. It honestly got a little dusty in my house watching those greats tip their hats. It was even nice seeing the Yankee greats like Yogi Berra, Ford and Jackson get love, even if they are Yankees. This from Milton Bradley's All-Star New York Times blog: ...
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NY Times piece on Hamilton and Bradley
lonestarball.com 7/14/2008 — The New York Times has a piece up on Josh Hamilton and Milton Bradley, and the disparate ways they are viewed by the public at large...
Of particular note, I think, is Eddie Guardado and Michael Young both coming out and saying that Bradley's race ...
YANKS HONOR BOBBY —
NY Post: Sports 7/14/2008
TORONTO - To honor the late Bobby Murcer, all Yankee uniforms yesterday had a black arm band on the left sleeve below the Yankee Stadium patch. The arm band will remain there throughout the season. Funeral plans weren't announced, but a family...
THE STADIUM'S THE STAR —
NY Post: Sports 7/14/2008
THIS isn't just about the weepy pilgrims who buy the tickets, who fill Yankee Stadium day after day, who've been taking extra-long looks around the old ballpark this summer, staying long after the final pitch, traffic be damned, lest they fail to...
