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August 14, 2001
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Going the Other Way The dead pull hitter is dying out as batters crush the ball to the opposite field... |
Salon.com
March 28, 2002
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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 Illustrated
April 24, 2000
Jack McCallum |
Take me out to the brawl game ...But nothing proves to Joe Fan so conclusively -- and so entertainingly -- that athletes give a damn as the sight of uniformed bodies pouring out of a dugout and throwing wild, girly-man haymakers at each other... |
Sports Central
October 10, 2005
Zach Jones |
Ozzie Guillen's "Not So Smart" Ball The three most important factors in the Chicago White Sox' success this season, in order of significance, as well as some thoughts on Ozzie's offensive philosophy. |
Sports Central
August 3, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
Root For the Home Team? Not Always For about $10 bucks you can walk up to just about any stadium on game day, buy an upper reserve ticket, and hang out at the ball park and stand and watch the game. |
PC Magazine
March 3, 2009
Daniel S. Evans |
MLB 09: The Show Whatever level of baseball realism you want and whether you want to work your way up, just play the Big One, manage -- you name it, this PS3, PSP, and PS2 game lets you do it. |
Sports Illustrated
June 13, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Interleague played-out Baseball's experiment may have run its course... |
AskMen.com
Pete Flies |
Top 10: Classic Baseball Plays Here are 10 classic baseball plays that will remind us why baseball in October is great. |
Sports Central
October 12, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
Tigers Advance on Shades of Gray Sonny Gray is learning the lessons rookies usually learn if they intend to build careers as good as Gray's performance in American League division series Game 2 was. |
Smithsonian
October 2006 |
Cricket for Dummies It's a lot like baseball. Except that it's profoundly different. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Davin Coburn |
Baseball Physics: Anatomy of a Home Run In less time than it takes to blink an eye, pro hitters routinely achieve the extraordinary. Here's how home runs happen. |
Sports Illustrated
September 6, 2000
Tom Verducci |
Making a case for Pedro Martinez With 16 wins, Pedro Martinez has a shot at winning 20. What does he have to do to win the Cy Young award? I thought he was already the clear frontrunner, but the mailbag brought some disagreement. |
Sports Central
October 21, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
ALCS Game 6: The Pennant That Wasn't in the Plans The Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers learned the hard way Saturday night that baseball's often what happens when you have other plans. |
Salon.com
July 31, 2002
King Kaufman |
30 more memorable moments Baseball's list tends toward the recent and positive, so here are some alternatives, unvarnished. |
Sports Illustrated
September 18, 2000
Jack McCallum |
Missed opportunity Why isn't Pedro baseball's premier pitchman? |
Salon.com
April 25, 2001
Allen Barra |
The golden age of pitching is now When you consider what today's hurlers have to deal with, our low opinion of them is way off-base. Plus: Does God answer NASCAR prayers? |
Sports Central
June 12, 2004
David Martin |
The AL in Brief Read about all the current highlights in baseball's American League. |
Sports Central
September 16, 2005
Chris Cornell |
Sox Take a Look in Rearview If the Boston Red Sox thought they could just cruise into the playoffs without getting a fight from the Evil Empire, they'd better think again. |
Salon.com
October 12, 1999
Vin Scully |
"29,000 people and a million butterflies" Vin Scully's radio call of the ninth inning of Sandy Koufax's 1965 perfect game against the Chicago Cubs is pure baseball literature.... |
Sports Illustrated
May 8, 2002
Tom Verducci |
The toughest out Patience makes Bonds more dangerous than Sosa... |
Sports Central
October 1, 2004
M. Edward Guest |
Pedro and Boston: One Last October? The distinguished hurler for the Boston Red Sox has posted 16-9 record with a 3.90 ERA, for a team that recently clinched a spot in the postseason. Yet, Martinez is a frustrated man, witnessing the worst season of his career. |
Sports Central
August 29, 2006
Bill Hazell |
Landslide: Who Wants AL Playoff Spots? Incredibly, most of baseball's American League powers seem quite content in giving each other a good head-start going into the final home stretch in September. |
Sports Central
October 3, 2005
Vince Grzegorek |
Indians Face Long Winter Ahead Nine out of the last 10 years, 93 wins was good enough to earn a wildcard berth in the American League. Unfortunately for the Cleveland Indians, this year it wasn't. |
Sports Central
September 13, 2011
Ryan Day |
Can the Rays Make the Playoffs? As baseball winds down and makes its way to the final weeks of the season, the Tampa Bay Rays are a handful of games away from a wild card berth. |
Salon.com
July 17, 2002
King Kaufman |
Dismal dog days This is always a slow time of year, but now, with baseball's labor unrest dominating the news, it's downright depressing. |
Sports Illustrated
November 20, 2002
Franz Lidz |
Promo Sapiens With trained pigs, wacky nuns and Vasectomy Night, minor-league baseball marketing wizard Mike Veeck is teaching the sports world to give fans their funny's worth. |
Sports Illustrated
February 26, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Pitchers strike out Umps will call 'em high, but Maddux is down and out... |
Sports Illustrated
April 20, 2000
Tom Verducci |
Home runs getting you down? Baseball Q&A: Dave Stieb... bored with home run after home run?... why isn't anyone hitting .400?... etc. |
Sports Illustrated
June 6, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
High on Lowe The hurler's emergence could put Boston over the top. |
Sports Central
May 17, 2005
Adam Russell |
Baseball's Five Biggest Surprises As it is nearly every year, the early part of the Major League Baseball season includes a number of surprises. |
Sports Central
September 24, 2007
Phil Backert |
MLB Playoff Chase Down to Final Stretch The last week of the season in Major League Baseball could not be more exciting for fans as the hunt for October hits the final stretch run. |
Sports Central
October 14, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
ALCS Game 2: Tight, High, Wild, Grand Those guys are playing what used to be Red Sox baseball when crunch time arrived! You could hear Fenway's ghosts whispering among themselves. |
Sports Central
June 13, 2006
Tom Skinner |
Detroit Tigers: Contenders or Pretenders? This year's edition of the Detroit Tigers has been anything but a rudderless ship. |
Sports Central
January 13, 2005
Vince Grzegorek |
Back to the Future Sunday April 3, 2005. The Yankees and Red Sox officially kicked off the 2005 MLB season tonight in a highly-anticipated rematch of last year's ALCS. |
Sports Illustrated
May 24, 2000
Tom Verducci |
The trouble with starting young The next Golden Age of young starting pitching was on display at the 1997 All-Star game.... |
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 Illustrated
April 19, 2002
Jeff Pearlman |
Milwaukee is no All-Star city Playing the baseball All-Star Game in Milwaukee is a complete joke... |
Sports Central
January 2, 2006
Jeff Kallman |
Remembering Baseball Legends Lost A tribute to baseball legends who died in 2005. |
Sports Central
July 3, 2007
Scott Shepherd |
2007 MLB All-Star Snubs When the players and coaches filled out the remaining roster spots with worthy participants, they dropped the ball. |
Sports Illustrated
April 26, 2000
Tom Verducci |
Vlad, undervalued? Believe it Baseball Q&A: Who is over/under rated?... Considering how thin starting pitching is, why don't managers entertain the idea of returning to the days of four-man rotations?... Are the Braves interested in acquiring A-Rod in the off-season?... etc. |
Sports Central
October 2, 2013
Bob Ekstrom |
What a Difference a Day Makes If all this hyperbole about an extra day on the schedule tells us anything, it's that baseball is by far the most hyper-analyzed of any major sport. |
Sports Central
October 14, 2003
Louis Llovio |
Even in its Shining Hour, MLB Manages to Screw Things Up World Series scheduling could be a fiasco |
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. |
Sports Central
September 24, 2005
Jeff Kallman |
Nobody Asked Me This Time, Either, But... Colon breaks Angels' 20-win drought... Red Sox find losing 6 of 11 is destabilizing... Ken Griffey, Jr. suffers yet another season-ending injury... Davis and Waxman may someday walk and chew gum at the same time... The American League East not the only spellbinding dance in town... |
Sports Central
June 21, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Boys Will Be Boys Roger Clemens gets off the hook on a perjury rap because either the House Committee for the Sending of Swell Messages to Kids, the actual prosecution, or the original Mitchell Report bungled its way across the sticky wickets of actual or alleged performance-enhancing substances. |
Sports Central
October 18, 2007
Rich Lyons |
Down 3-1, Sox Look to Their Ace The Red Sox entered the season as one of the favorites to win the World Series, but find themselves in the precarious playoff situation of win or go home. |
Sports Central
August 16, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Johnny Pesky, RIP: He Only Held Your Heart At Fenway's centenary, Johnny Pesky sat warmly at second base, in his wheelchair, moved to tears during the pre-game ceremony. As Red Sox Nation and just about everyone in or near baseball is moved to tears for losing, really, the next best thing we have to our baseball grandfather. |
Sports Central
October 9, 2007
Bob Ekstrom |
No More Dead Men Walking The Red Sox, along with the rest of this year's League Championship Series field, can enjoy the extended celebration offered by an unprecedented layover. |
