Will Pittsfield, MA. Officially Become Baseballs Birthplace?
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Kumar posted 3/18/2008 from www.bizofbaseball.com [flag] |
For years, the myth was fact: Cooperstown was the birthplace of baseball. Most now know that Abner Doubleday did not create the game of base ball in 1839 in upstate New York. And, even if there were actual documentation showing that Doubleday started playing the game in Cooperstown at that time, there is documentation that pre-dates that ...
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The Scorecard: Yankees are Hokies for a day
Published 3/18/2008 at Big League Stew
Watch out, ladies. Derek Jeter and the Yankees are in Virginia Tech today, so if for some unknown reason you want to stay out of the Deuce's grasp, you can watch it free on MLB.TV. I may have mentioned this before, but what the Yankees are doing — visiting and raising money for a college campus that was struck by tragedy less than a year ago — is very admirable. A lot of fans out there hate the Yankees even more than the like their own teams, but it's a little hard to harbor animosity on a day like this. Heck, if the team can even allow reporters to fly on their plane today, even Red Sox fans can show a little appreciation for the ...