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The Briny Ballers Achieve A Left-Columner [Purple Prose]

Fish@Bat: Blogging the Florida Marlins found this 5/14/2008 on deadspin.com

Slate's Robert Weintraub, like many of us, loves the old purple prose of early 1900s sportswriting, the Grantland Rices, the men who painted epic tales of warriors, grizzled combatants and lardywarks too manly to wear gloves. In an occasional series, Weintraub writes about the week's best baseball game in the style of the vaunted sportswriters of yesteryear. This week: Dan Uggla's two-homer ...