Baseball
epub |eng | | Author:Art Shamsky

• • • Invigorated by Nolan’s Houdini act in the top of the third inning, Agee hit the first pitch he saw in the bottom half for a home run, ...
( Category: Biographies June 5,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jason Turbow

Yeager’s defense—both his handling of pitchers and his arm behind the plate—was beyond reproach. The catcher had suffered a panoply of injuries over recent seasons, however, and his offensive output ...
( Category: West June 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Pete Rose

CHAPTER 15 Vietnam Late in the 1967 season, I got a call from someone who worked at the State Department. “Would you be interested in going to Vietnam?” he asked ...
( Category: Baseball June 4,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bob Klapisch

7 * * * * * * Night School Nobody wants to cover baseball in August: it’s the school-detention month of the regular season. Your friends are at the Cape ...
( Category: Journalism June 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Dale Berra

Nobody could have convinced me back then that I would harm myself and my career. It seemed so easy, even natural. When I went to spring training for the ’80 ...
( Category: Biographies May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-06 | Author:Tony Castro

12 The Prince of America I may not have been the best goddamn ballplayer of all time, but if I wasn’t, I’d like to see who the fuck was. —Mickey ...
( Category: Baseball May 24,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ron Darling

* * * When I was traded to Oakland in the middle of the 1991 season, the A’s sent right-hander Joe Slusarski to their Triple-A team in Tacoma to make ...
( Category: Biographies May 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Cal Ripken Jr.

Getting the right players for your team When we started Ripken Baseball, I had a group of successful businesspeople as advisors. I knew baseball, but I needed to learn about ...
( Category: Baseball May 17,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Podair, Jerald;

7 THE ARECHIGA DISPOSSESSIONS The manner in which the evictions were carried out certainly influenced the ways in which they were interpreted, as did the nature of the media coverage ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development May 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:Sam Pathy

1973 Opening Day APRIL 6; CUBS (JENKINS) VS. EXPOS (TORREZ); SUNNY, 65 DEGREES; 40,273 PAID Cubs 3 Expos 2—A single by Joe Pepitone, an error, and three walks accounted for ...
( Category: Sports May 10,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-09 | Author:Brian Startare

8th 1902—Philadelphia A’s second baseman Danny Murphy was historically fashionably late. Library of Congress Murphy’s contract was just purchased from the minor-league Norwich Reds the previous day, and he did ...
( Category: Trivia May 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-10 | Author:Bill Nowlin

Honorable Mention Roger Clemens, “The Rocket,” had great stats, too. He is, among other things, tied for the most wins in Red Sox history—192, tied with none other than Cy ...
( Category: Essays May 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Tim Hornbaker

The baseball community as a whole was horrified by the news from New York on August 16, 1920, that popular shortstop Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians had been hit ...
( Category: Essays May 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Tyler Kepner

* * * ———— Bobby Valentine managed in Japan in 1995. At the end of the next season, he began a long stint managing the Mets. When Valentine returned to ...
( Category: History of Sports April 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-31 | Author:Kevin Reavy

In 2018, the ever-rebuilding Marlins’ José Ureña improved his first-half performance (2–9, 4.39 ERA) by going 7–3 with a 3.31 ERA over his final 12 starts. Ureña has hit the ...
( Category: Sports April 21,2019 )