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Evaluating WAAS, WAR As HOF Measuring Sticks
The results of this year’s Hall of Fame voting and with them a renewed debate about what actually makes a worthy candidate. This debate has been around for decades, before the question of steroids arose, and has more to do with voting on “very good players,” you know, the guys who are at the top of the league but not necessarily among the best ever. A wide range of opinions exists as to who should be enshrined in the hall. I personally am in the camp that says that only the best of
A franchise rich in history and tradition, the Boston Red Sox feature a multitude of legendary players who have worn the uniform over the last century. One of the most beloved figures in Red Sox history was honored on Sunday at Fenway Park.
Boston paid tribute to Johnny Pesky in a...
September 23, 1908 Giants Pitcher Christy Mathewson and Cubs P Three Finger Brown battle in one of the most controversial game ever played. The score is 1 - 1 with two outs in the last of the 9th, when Fred Merkle's failure to touch second after an apparent game-winning hit by Al Bridwell costs the...
September 18, 1975 - The New York Mets defeat the Chicago Cubs, 7 - 5 at Shea Stadium. Rusty Staub becomes the first Mets' player to reach 100 RBIs in a season with a 2-run homer in the fifth. Dave Kingman sets a team record with his 35th home run of the season to win it in the ninth inning....
Chances are, Jacoby Ellsbury will not sign a long-term extension with the Boston Red Sox and enter the free agent market after next season. Whether or not he gets a payday that tops $20 million a year over five or more seasons depends on the numbers he posts in 2013 – numbers that are directly tied...
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This Week: at CWS (9/17); OAK (9/18-20); MIN (9/21-23)
So, What Happened?
Last week, MMM crabbed about all the one-run losses the Tigers have suffered on the road in 2012. Sunday’s might have been the most insufferable of them all.
Three outs away from a sweep of the lowly Cleveland...
September 17, 1968 Detroit clinches the American League pennant with a 2 - 1 win over the Yankees. Detroit is ahead 1 - 0 when Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey phones Tiger general manager Jim Campbell with the news that the Sox have beaten the Orioles, clinching the pennant for the Tigers. Campbell keeps...
The "best all-around athletes" list are always "subjective." Sport fans have their "favorite's." Michael Jordan fans say he's the greatest - Jim Brown fans will claim he's No.1. I'm sure you have your own list, your own "best" athlete ever in the history of sports.......
Here's ESPN's "TOP TEN"...
September 15, 1990: Despite solo homers in the 5th by brothers Billy Ripken and Cal Ripken, both off David Wells, the Orioles lose 4 - 3 to Toronto. The brothers would homer together once more in 1996, again in the same inning. The Ripken Brothers joint stint in Baltimore, while managed by...
The New York Yankees lose to the Tampa Bay Rays, 6-4 in this AL East showdown. It was a battle of the lefties with CC Sabathia going for New York and David Price on the mound for Tampa Bay.
The Yankees took the early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second when with two outs Steve Pearce...
September 14, 1994 - The remainder of the baseball season is canceled by acting commissioner Bud Selig after 34 days of the players' strike. The last 50 games of the season and post season were cancelled due to the strike called by the Players Association and their leader Don Fehr. The...
September 12, 1911 - In a game billed as a pitchers' duel, Boston's Cy Young and the Giants' Christy Mathewson face each other for the first time before 10,000, Boston's largest crowd of the year. Young gives up three homers and nine runs in less than three innings. With a 9 - 0 Giants lead, John...
The reeling Red Sox, which appear headed for their first last place finish in the American League East since 1992, showed they have a pulse for the first time in September.
After starting the month 1-7 and fresh off a sweep at the hands of the Toronto, the Red Sox sprouted to life on Tuesday when...
The least likely athlete to go from "zero to hero" was Josh Hamilton. From the time Hamilton became Tampa Bay's number one draft pick in 1999, and paid him a signing bonus of $3.99 million the big left-hand slugger took the money and ran looking for the nearest drug dealer. It was the beginning of...
Pete Rose becaomes baseball's all-time hit leader
September 11, 1918 - The Red Sox win the World Series in game six, on Carl Mays's 2nd victory, a 2-1 three-hitter. Cubs pitchers compile a 1.04 ERA, while Boston's .186 batting average is the lowest ever for a World Series winner. They...
Pete Rose becaomes baseball's all-time hit leader
September 11, 1918 - The Red Sox win the World Series in game six, on Carl Mays's 2nd victory, a 2-1 three-hitter. Cubs pitchers compile a 1.04 ERA, while Boston's .186 batting average is the lowest ever for a World Series winner. They...
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