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tball275 tball275 posted 4/28/2008 from wegotaguythere.blogspot.com [flag]
A big college blowout. Check it out to see a player spotlight, team spotlight, guys with baseball names and MORE! [link]

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Baseball Player Name of the Week
Published 4/30/2008 by Emma at Eephus Pitch
Pittsburgh Pirate John Wesley Van Benschoten, who, thanks to the Mets, is currently sporting an ERA of 27.00... and who sounds like he could actually have been a literal pirate. Didn't I once read about some fabled sea battle between him and Sir Francis Drake? Also, here's an extremely promising NotW prospect, via a blog called We Got A Guy There: Oklahoma State's Rebel Ridling. God, I'd give anything to get him on the same team as Cody Ransom one day.

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