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From Bill Shaikin at the Los Angeles Times on September 17, 2019:Even by the standards of baseball’s most arduous trivia competition, and even to the competitors whose brains overflowed with arguably useless knowledge...
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From SABR member Grant Brisbee at The Athletic on September 17, 2019:In the corner of my funky concrete backyard, which was featured in August’s issue of “Acceptable Homes and Gardens,” there are two orange plastic-and-metal seats.
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From SABR member Rob Mains at Baseball Prospectus on September 17, 2019:While it’s hard to hit home runs against the great pitchers that are featured in the postseason, it’s even harder to string together three singles...
National Talk Like a Pirate Day > National Hit Like a Pirate Day
After a strong homestand with back-to-back series wins against teams who are ostensibly better than them, the Mariners head out on their last road trip of the season, starting off things in Pittsburgh.
Doane Women's Golf played one of their closest meets of the year to Crete on Tuesday when they took part in the Nebraska Wesleyan Fall Classic in Lincoln at Pioneers GC. The course played at a Par 74 over 5,876 yards.
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Expectations for the 1977 San Diego baseball season ran high, due to trades and free agent signings that everyone believed would strengthen the team.
Sonny Gray takes the mound.
Thanks in large part to the decision by the Cincinnati Reds to bump back their rotation and make Monday’s series opener a bullpen game, the Chicago Cubs still sit a game clear of the Milwaukee Brewers in the chase for the NL’s second Wild Card spot.
This is just another unfortunate development for a Phillies club that is all but out of the playoff picture.
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Speedy outfielder Quinton McCracken played 12 years in the majors (1995-2006) and was one of the few players since coach...
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Bill Hutchison was among the last of a breed. Over a three-year stretch, from 1890 to 1892, the ironman right-hander averaged 40 wins, 595 innings, 63 complete games, and 65 starts per season.