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Let's Go to the Videotape: Baseball Sells!
A while ago, we took a look at Mike Piazza's forays into the world of commercials. Of course, he is not the only MLB star to lend his face to a corporate endorsement. Baseball and commerce are both as American as apple pie, and as long as we've had professional players, we've seen them in...
Today in Sports History: August 7th
8/07/1999 - Boggs hits historic homerWade Boggs, playing for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, hits a home run off Indians' pitcher Chris Haney to give him 3,000 for his career. It was the first time a player hit a home run for his 3,000th hit and was the first notable moment in the history of the D-Rays....
Graph of the Day: Maddux vs. Clemens
My first attempt at one of these things, and I thought I'd make it a graph I've been interested in doing for a while. Here are arguably the two greatest pitching careers any of us have ever seen, put in to graphed form using Wins Above Replacement to grade their performance: The two of them...
Buddy Black on getting Maddux to pitch "It's actually not a bad idea"
XX Sports Radio: Bud Black Interview (MP3) It's snowing in Denver, Colorado On Adrian's home run: "That was a bomb! I mean right off the bat. It was a fast ball middle-in and he got it. That looked beautiful" Gonzalez is off to a great start, he's in the part of his career where things should...
Dodgers "at" Chi-Sox Game Thread
Dodgers (13-15) @ White Sox (12-16-1) Today the Dodgers play a road game at Camelback Ranch with their fellow spring training residents the White Sox. Despite the loss yesterday there was some good news for Dodger fans. Manny went 3-3 at the plate and is batting .500 so far in spring training....
Padres Bullet Points
Giles would prefer the Yankees, Red Sox or Angels if/when he is traded mid-season. He's also not going to let his "personal issues" interfere with the team or his game. Giles has a dark side, one where he beats on girlfriends in bars and allegedly other things. He's pretty good about hiding...
Maddux can give you advice about anything
'Professor' Returns as Spring Training instructor “I would come in sometimes and Greg could tell I was ticked off, and he would say, 'Let it out,'” Bell said. “He would say, 'Don't do anything stupid. Take a bat to a trash can or something.' But it was, 'If you're mad, let it...
Maddux Actually A Dodger
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We're Gonna Cheer, And Boo, And Raise A Hullabaloo, At The Ballgame Today
When Jessica returned from one of her many sojourns through Wrigley Field, she reported that she overheard someone saying, "I don't know how I feel about cheering for Jim Edmonds. It's just weird." That's exactly right. It's just weird, and Edmonds got both booed and cheered today -- a mix of...
rob neyer Q+A: the art of storytelling
of yesterday’s game, the less said the better; fortunately i have an interview ready to go. last thursday i talked to ESPN’s rob neyer about his latest offering, Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends. neyer is often thought of as strictly a numbers guy, but that's not really...
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