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Lloyd Waters: Baseball, apple pie and heroes
Back in the late 1950s and early ’60s, the school ground in Dargan was the place to be if you wanted to play a little baseball. All the kids in the community would enjoy their summer vacations from school by playing the most popular sport....Tags: Cincinnati Reds, Barry Bonds, Whitey Ford, Lou Gehrig, Apples
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Alomar, Blyleven voted into baseball's Hall of Fame
Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven became Hall of Famers on Wednesday, the two-time World Series champions easily elected after narrow misses last season. Sluggers Rafael Palmeiro, Mark McGwire, Jeff Bagwell and Juan Gonzalez came nowhere close. Hall...Tags: Lenny Harris, Toronto Blue Jays, Career and Workplace, Pete Rose, All Stars
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NFL: Miami, con un estadio anticuado, se queda sin Super Bowl
El sur de Florida, con todo su glamour y eclecticismo, recibió un duro golpe esta semana cuando los dueños de equipos de la NFL hicieron pedazos el sueño de Miami de convertirse nuevamente en sede de un Super Bowl. En una votación que resultó en...
Tags: Ryan Vogelsong, Serge Ibaka, Chicago Bulls, National Football League, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Punkin Milller would have loved this ceremony
One of the last things Punkin Miller wanted to do as manager of the MetLife Orioles in the Blue Mountain League was get a scoreboard dedicated at his team's Curt Simmons Field at Egypt Memorial Park. On Sunday afternoon, that scoreboard was dedicated,...Tags: College Baseball, High School Sports, Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, Baseball, Lafayette College
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How Sam Lacy helped integrate Major League Baseball
Like most films depicting historic accounts of real-life events, the bio-epic "42" carries the immediate disclaimer that it is based on a true story, leaving room for interpretive analysis and creative license. Consequently, dramatic interpretations are...
Tags: Racism, Ku Klux Klan, Baseball, 42 (movie), Sports Legends at Camden Yards
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Jose Rosado: Too many athletes belong in the hall of shame
Unfortunately, many of us have had that difficult conversation with young children regarding their sports heroes and cheating. Usually at the end of the conversation, we remind them that winners never cheat and cheaters never win. We tell them this even...
Tags: Laws, Cycling, International Cycling Union, Baseball, Sammy Sosa
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Others may be concerned about Darin Ruf's slow start, but Phillies not among them
Since signing with the Phillies in 2009, Darin Ruf has never hit more than two home runs in the first month of a season. So seeing a one in the home run column on his stat line at this point of the season isn't all that unusual. Then again, Ruf didn't...
Tags: Ken Griffey Jr., International League, Lehigh Valley IronPigs, Baseball, Sammy Sosa
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Jackie Robinson's Legacy As 'The Greatest'
The Hartford CourantYears ago, sportscaster Howard Cosell was asked to name his all-time favorite athlete. Obviously, the most prominent sports journalist of his era would name the man who made Cosell famous: Ali. Wrong. "That's an easy one,'' Cosell said, spacing...Tags: Barack Obama, Racism, Baseball, Derek Jeter, Sociology
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Going, going ... Barry Bonds' home run plaque at AT&T Park gone
A commemorative plaque honoring Barry Bonds’ record-breaking 756th home run hanging at the San Francisco Giants’ AT&T Park has vanished. CBS and other Bay Area media affiliates are reporting the plaque vanished sometime in the last few days....Tags: AT&T Park
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S.F. Giants to replace Barry Bonds home run sign that 'disappeared'
Things vanish and are replaced at the San Francisco Giants’ AT&T Park all the time, so a lost Barry Bonds commemorative plaque shouldn’t be a big deal, a team spokeswoman said Wednesday. “It’s a stadium with 41,000 people, things...Tags: Auction Service, Baseball, Sports
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Puerto Rico reclaiming lost glory with WBC run
SAN FRANCISCO — Roberto Clemente was baseball royalty long before dying on a relief mission at the height of his Hall of Fame career. Ernie Banks knew the kid had something as soon as he saw the young Puerto Rican play right field for the Pirates....
Tags: Alex Rios, Pittsburgh Pirates, Roberto Alomar, Baseball, San Diego Padres
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Take a swing at these
WASHINGTON -- As the unendurable monotony of the offseason ends, celebrate baseball's return with mental calisthenics. Everyone knows it was former Atlanta Manager Dave Bristol who said, "Only trouble I ever had with chewing tobacco was that the...
Tags: Cy Young Award, Baseball, National League, Willie McCovey, Ted Lyons
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