Posts tagged “MLB”

Old Friends

Former Boston Red Sox players Dom DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky hit the road last week for a reunion with ailing teammate Ted Williams, recovering at his Florida home after open-heart surgery earlier this year. Williams, regarded as perhaps the best pure hitter in baseball history, was the last player to hit over .400, when he

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Baseball Chips In

Major League Baseball and the Players Association donated $10 million and announced the creation of the MLB-MLBPA Disaster Relief Fund on Wednesday to aid the victims of last week’s terrorist attacks in the United States.

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Curt Schilling

Here is an awesome letter from Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Curt Schilling to the citizens of America. link via xero79.com Update: In the 20+ years since I originally wrote this post, Curt Schilling has somehow morphed into a right-wing lunatic. And the link to whatever he wrote and published on the Yahoo! MLB website has disappeared.

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Hats

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Sewing machines at New Era Cap Co. on Friday began stitching American flags onto the caps major league baseball players will wear when they resume play next week. That is so American I don’t even know what to do with myself. Once again, some simple little story brought tears to my

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Bosox

Trot Nixon worked the count against Texas reliever Danny Kolb, and the strategy worked in favor of the Boston Red Sox. Nixon hit a tiebreaking grand slam in the eighth inning on a 3-2 pitch from Kolb and the Red Sox beat the Rangers 7-4 Friday night.

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Mt. Everest

A man who successfully climbed Mount Everest last month left a Red Sox cap at the summit and burned a Yankees cap at base camp in the hopes of removing the ‘curse of the bambino’.

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