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Rambling On About My Glory Days: Peace of Mind at Thanksgiving

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:42:49 +0000

Of course, Thanksgiving is the time of year when one looks back, thinks of and thanks the people who they are most grateful for. In my professional career, there is one person that fits that bill every Thanksgiving. 1984 was a bittersweet year for me. I was traded from the Indians to the ...

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Some team nicknames that did not stick

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:34:22 +0000

With Matt Aber’s post regarding player nicknames still in my mind, I came across an article in the August 22, 1891, Sporting News which gave a number of team nicknames and background on the names. Most of the major league team’s nicknames and reasons for the names are well know. ...

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Turkey Day duldrums

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:15:36 +0000

It’s only been a month since the end of the World Series, but sitting at the table Thanksgiving day I miss baseball. Maybe it is the lack of any major hot stove activity, or maybe it was the fact that my roommate moved out with his PS3, and his MLB the Show, but I had baseball on the ...

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Jakubauskas Moves to Pirates; Indy Free Agents Also Finding Homes

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:33:14 +0000

The dust is just beginning to settle as major league organizations do a shakedown of their minor league rosters, and I can tell you I have not seen any certain winners so far from within the ranks of players who either started in or have played in Independent leagues. The promotion of ...

Seamhead1967 posted 5 days ago from seamheads.com

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Ramblin On About My Glory Days: From Yaz to Perco to Ochocinco

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:32:32 +0000

Whenever I have a baseball coach’s clinic, I begin with a trivia question, “Who caught the last ball that Carl Yastrzemski ever hit in a major league game?” Not one person has ever answered correctly; until I gave them the hint, “The answer is so obvious, like it is right in front of you.” ...

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The Debut of the DH

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:17:11 +0000

Starting in the 1973 season, the American League implemented the designated hitter rule, which allowed a player to hit for another player, which is almost always the pitcher. Here is a look at how the first designated hitters did for their respective American League clubs during ...

Seamhead1967 posted 9 days ago from seamheads.com

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Joe Klein Has Not Missed Out on Much in Majors Or as Executive Director of Atlantic League

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:36:58 +0000

One of the nice things about this time of year in the Independent Baseball-writing business is we sometimes can sit back without the daily buzz of games and think about some of the factors—and the people—that make this business go. I have written from time to time about some of the league ...

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More Thoughts On The Cy Young

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:10:09 +0000

If you’ve not seen them, my selections for the Cardinal Bloggers Awards are below. The votes are coming in from across the blogosphere and we should have some results maybe this weekend. I briefly touched on it yesterday , but I want to talk a little more about the aftermath of the Cy ...

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Cy Not In The Cards

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:22:12 +0000

(OK, I’m sure that’ll be a headline used by just about everyone. Nobody’s ever said I was creative.) The news is out , and Tim Lincecum won another Cy Young, beating out Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright. It was a ridiculously tight race, with Lincecum beating Carp by 6 ...

Seamhead1967 posted 11 days ago from seamheads.com

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The Ultimate Seven-Game Fall Classic: Game Three

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:16:38 +0000

In part one of my Ultimate Seven-Game Fall Classic series, I featured Game One of the 1988 World Series between the Oakland A’s and Los Angeles Dodgers. Part two featured an epic 14-inning battle between the Boston Red Sox and Brooklyn Robins in Game Two of the 1916 Fall Classic. For Game ...

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Not Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:05:23 +0000

News continues to be a slow and very small trickle at this time of year, so I was a little surprised to see an interesting story on the Post-Dispatch website this morning. According to John Mozeliak, Jason Bay is not a priority . It’s quite a change from the interest the organization ...

Seamhead1967 posted 12 days ago from seamheads.com

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Milwaukee’s First All-Black Baseball Team and its Star Napoleon Broady

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:32:31 +0000

I imagine we have all done it. Found a tantalizing tidbit on a subject and decided to research it further. It sounds so exciting and newsworthy. Just find what there is to be found and put it into an article. Heck, maybe even a short book. There will be so much of interest. The big problem will ...

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Bring Back the Nickname

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:40:19 +0000

Who was the best center fielder in New York in the 50’s? Willie, Mickey or Ed? How about the time George promised the sick boy he would hit a home run for him? Then George went out and did it. Winning the Denton Young Award all of a sudden doesn’t sound as glamorous. I would love to see ...

Seamhead1967 posted 13 days ago from seamheads.com

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La marca de un pitcher (The presence of a pitcher)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:00:52 +0000

El domingo 15 de noviembre de 2009 aprecié por fin el documental “The lost son of Havana” (El hijo perdido de La Habana) auspiciado por ESPN para recrear la vida del lanzador cubano Luis Tiant hijo. Sencillamente escalofriantes las escenas del reencuentro con su país y con su familia. Las ...

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Fantography: A Photographic Baseball Diary Through the Eyes of The Fans

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:19:28 +0000

As I chatted with Andy Strasberg about his new baseball related venture called Fantography™, I couldn’t help but hum Rod Stewart’s 1971 anthem, “Every Picture Tells a Story”. In actuality, however, my musical recap of Strasberg’s photographic venture ...

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What Happened To Those Who Debuted In Majors In 2008?

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:14:54 +0000

Anyone who follows my offerings in this space and in my more extensive subscription-only Independent Baseball Insider knows how much I believe in tracking players from the Independent leagues who make it all the way to the majors. It is even more enjoyable if the players started their career ...

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Still Marking Time

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:20:21 +0000

The dead period continues, as a few rumors might trickle out during this period before the official start to free agency but not much else. Just a slow time for a baseball fan. There’s not even much Cardinal-related on MLB Trade Rumors , though I do note that one GM states Matt ...

Seamhead1967 posted 14 days ago from seamheads.com

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Rambling On About My Glory Days: A Higher Calling

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:05:17 +0000

Things were looking up for me and the 1982 Cleveland Indians, literally. I had been traded in the off season from the Dodgers with a great opportunity to be the starting second baseman. After a good spring training I earned the starting spot and was prepared for the season, or so I thought. My ...

Seamhead1967 posted 15 days ago from seamheads.com

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The Road to 10,000 Wins

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:23:06 +0000

With 10,344 regular season wins, the San Francisco Giants franchise has collected more wins than any other baseball team in Major League history. It is not hard to see how the club reached that mark, suiting up legends such as John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, Mel Ott, Willie Mays and Willie ...

Seamhead1967 posted 16 days ago from seamheads.com

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Cardinal Baseball Talk

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:55:26 +0000

We had a good conversation last night with Matthew Leach, Cardinal beat writer for MLB.com, on the United Cardinal Bloggers Radio Hour . The major topics were hashed out and Matthew brought some interesting thoughts into the mix. For example, he thinks the odds of Matt Holliday returning to ...

Seamhead1967 posted 18 days ago from seamheads.com

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