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Sports Central December 28, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
Sports Central March 22, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Great Players Becoming Great Managers At this writing, Don Mattingly could become a genuinely great manager in time or the next Mel Ott, a genuinely great player who went genuinely into the tank as a manager. Robin Ventura could go either way, too. |
Sports Central January 12, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
Remembering Baseball Legends Lost (Pt. 2) Part two of a tribute to baseball legends who died in 2005. |
Salon.com March 31, 2001 King Kaufman |
Nine predictions and nine observations The Yankees won't do it again, the A's will go far. And stop calling them "ballparks"! |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Top 20: Baseball Players Of All Time This season, Barry Bonds continues his assault on the Major League Baseball record books, closing in on the career home run title. He's easily one of the best players the game has ever seen. |
Sports Central January 3, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2013: Unrealities Baseball's 2013 included a few hallucinations and several surrealities. Some might have wished some of the hallucinations were real even as others might have wished some of what was real was merely a hallucination. |
Sports Central November 7, 2005 Jeff Kallman |
Credible Evidence and a Fresh Beer A post season analysis of major league baseball. |
Salon.com October 9, 2001 King Kaufman |
Playoff predictions Our writer bravely looks at the baseball games ahead and calls 'em as he sees 'em (while crossing his fingers)... |
AskMen.com Paul Bessire |
Top 10: World Series Teams As the 2007 MLB season comes to an end, WhatIfSports.com ranks all 102 previous World Seres winners to find the true top 10 greatest World Series teams in the history of baseball. |
Sports Central July 10, 2009 Diane M. Grassi |
SC's All-Time MLB Draft (Pt. 4) It is the age-old argument that will never go away amongst baseball aficionados. And that is the comparison of individual players from different eras in which they played. |
Sports Central May 28, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
So, What's in a Retired Number? Haven't the Yankees retired way too many numbers? |
Sports Central January 2, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
Remembering Baseball Legends Lost A tribute to baseball legends who died in 2005. |
Sports Central December 31, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
2011: Dickens Flummoxed Baseball's 2011 season was the best of times and it was the worst of times. |
Sports Central December 24, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
2012: Mime and Reason A look back at some of the odd occurrences during the 2012 baseball season, and players that passed away this year. |
Sports Central October 21, 2003 M. Edward Guest |
The Importance of Game Sevens My generation has been schooled on just how important a home game is in the finale of a World Series, but that was not always the case. |
Sports Central January 5, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
2003: Never a Dull Moment "We try every way we can do to kill this game," Sparky Anderson once said of baseball, "but for some reason, nothing nobody does never hurts it." That was then, this is now. Nothing nobody does never hurts it still, but lots of people do continue to embarrass it. |
Sports Central December 31, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2014: The Year in Review Baseball did a lot of blinking during 2014. Not to mention winking, nodding, prodding, clodding, and thrilling. |
Sports Central February 16, 2006 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Major League Baseball 2006 Preview NL East: 1. New York Mets... 2. Atlanta Braves... NL Central: 1. St. Louis Cardinals... 2. Milwaukee Brewers... |
Sports Central July 1, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Mad Max, Chasing Face? This season, winning 12 without a loss at this writing, Max Scherzer's more than a feel-good story, he's almost the story for the otherwise Al Central-leading Tigers. |
Sports Central February 21, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The Not-So-Great Yankee Double Switch One day after the 1964 World Series ended with the St. Louis Cardinals defeating the New York Yankees, both Series managers were out, and one of them went to work for the team he'd just opposed. |
Sports Central May 4, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
The Letter of the Law, Written and Otherwise Baseball, for all its controversies and crises, remains as invigorating a game in discourse as it is in play. |
Sports Central August 9, 2004 Hank Waddles |
Dodgers Aiming For Playoff Success Thanks to the new GM's guidance, Dodger fans can look forward to watching their team win games in October for the first time in 16 years. And this time, it won't take a miracle. |
Sports Central September 22, 2008 Jeff Kallman |
"Fort Apache, Yankee Stadium" All this season's eulogizing the big ball orchard in the Bronx has been gushy, mushy, sentimental, and mostly on the mark. |
Salon.com October 19, 2002 King Kaufman |
Cinderella, Goliath and other Series myths With the Giants and Angels set to meet in the Fall Classic, it's time for Fox TV and other pundits to manufacture drama. |
Salon.com November 4, 2001 King Kaufman |
Surprise ending If life followed a script, the Yankees would have won the World Series. But it doesn't, and they didn't... |
Sports Central October 26, 2003 M. Edward Guest |
World Champion Marlins Are Ultimate Opportunists Even though many puritans and fair-minded people contend that they did not deserve this, they earned it nonetheless. |
Salon.com October 16, 2001 King Kaufman |
Playoff picking, but not grinning Our writer boldly holds forth on the Yankees, the Mariners and the most hideous uniforms in baseball, and asks himself, "How many times can you be wrong about one team?" |
Sports Central August 30, 2006 Will Tidey |
Just a Perfect Day In 1956, Don Larsen pitched a no-hit, no-run, no-man-reach-first game in a World Series. |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: 2008 Baseball Games To Watch You can't watch every game, so you should at least try to catch some of these must-see games. |
Sports Central October 31, 2012 Stephen Kerr |
Defending America's Pastime Now that San Francisco has swept Detroit, and this year's World Series is over, I'll watch some good pro and college football and basketball. But I'm already counting down the days until spring training starts another season. Hurry back, baseball! |
Salon.com April 25, 2001 King Kaufman |
Almost triumphant You win some, you lose some, some get rained out. No hard feelings. Except for me... |
Sports Central March 10, 2005 Tyson Wirth |
Baseball's Great Secret There was a time when baseball was a game of constants, a game you could rely on. The rules of the game were simple and universal: the Red Sox were cursed, Babe Ruth was without equal, and good pitching was superior to good hitting. |
AskMen.com May 10, 2001 Harry Marks |
Top 10 Baseball Ballparks Baseball's back, and what better way to mark this return than with a list honoring the Top 10 Baseball Ballparks in the Major Leagues today... |
Sports Central July 9, 2009 Brad Oremland |
SC's All-Time MLB Draft (Pt. 3) In a 5-part series, sports columnists compare picks in an all-time MLB draft. |
Popular Mechanics April 2003 Jim Kaat |
The Mechanics Of Baseball Baseball has evolved in favor of the hitter. Here are nine factors that have changed the game. |
Sports Central October 24, 2007 Jeff Kallman |
What Indians Fans Don't Want to Hear Unexpected calamities or mental vapors at the worst possible moments? This used to happen to the Boston Red Sox all the time. |
Sports Illustrated August 30, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Blame it on the jerseys What the heck is up with the baseball uniforms?... If Felipe Alou is fired at the end of the season, where do you think he will end up?... What happens if there is a three-way or even four-way tie for the wild-card spot?... |
Sports Central October 24, 2003 Jeff Zaginailoff |
The Greatest World Series Ever I will list (what I consider to be) the best and more noteworthy World Series played since I have been following baseball (1967). The top dogs are still 1975 and 1991. |
Sports Central January 27, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
Cooperstown Calling Commentary about recent Hall of Fame selections. |
Sports Central December 7, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
Baseball's Oldest Profession, Revisited Anyone who thinks cheating in baseball began in earnest with the Fabulous BALCO Boys is in dire need of a history lesson. Class is now in session. |
Salon.com October 1, 2002 King Kaufman |
Picking winners In the baseball playoffs, the National League teams all look vulnerable and the American League teams all look unbeatable. Something's gotta give. |
Sports Central June 17, 2011 Andrew Jones |
How to Realign Major League Baseball Rumors have been floating around about the potential for MLB to realign into a system with two 15-team leagues and no divisions. |
Salon.com July 26, 2002 Allen Barra |
My most memorable baseball moments From Yogi's gift of total recall to Jennifer Lopez's uprising, my favorite memories of the game. |
Salon.com October 15, 2002 King Kaufman |
Who needs champions? The evil possibility of an all-wild card World Series has come to pass, and you know what? It looks pretty good from here. |
AskMen.com Malcolm MacMillan |
Top 10: MLB Landmarks To Visit In 2008 While the main interest is the actual ballgame, the actual stadium, the sights, the smells, and the sounds have a lot to do with the enjoyment of the game. |
Sports Central June 21, 2010 Joshua Duffy |
Lessons From Baseball's First Half At nearly the half-way point of the Major League Baseball season, we have a pretty good idea now of who is going to be what. |
Sports Central January 6, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
From Cy-VP to Sayonara? Some speculation commences that precedent argues against Justin Verlander, the American League's Cy Young Award winner and Most Valuable Player Award winner for 2011, facing other than sobering after-effects. |
Sports Central October 31, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Maybe We Get Our Goats at Last Maybe, little by little, people are beginning to get the idea that a baseball postseason goat doesn't always deserve the goat horns because he didn't do anything he wasn't supposed to do. |
Sports Central October 8, 2009 Sean Crowe |
It's Groundhog Day For Angels If the Angels don't beat the Red Sox this year, they'll never beat the Red Sox. |
Sports Central October 8, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Goodbye, Atlanta Braves, Yet Again The Braves, who managed to shake off a few hiccups and a few dubious deals to post the National League's best regular season record, deserved better than regular season managing in a win-or-be-gone game. |