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So You Think You’ve Seen a Slow Start
The Yankees finally put one in the win column on Monday night, beating the Orioles 6-2 behind a dogged effort from Ivan Nova (seven innings of two-run ball despite yielding 10 hits) after being swept by the Rays in their season-opening series. In doing so, they managed to avoid an 0-4 start for the first ...
Pujols and Holland in Pinstriped Company
Albert Pujols' three home runs on Saturday night put Mr. October back in the news.
Games Three and Four of the World Series games could hardly have been any more different. Saturday night’s slugfest, won 16-7 by the Cardinals, featured a record-setting offensive performance by Albert Pujols, ...
You Have to Admit, He Had a Point
Babe Ruth: Succeeding gloriously, failing gloriously. (AP)
Spelunking around the Internet this evening doing research on another topic, I chanced across an old Heywood Broun column from a 1922 collection. Broun is best remembered today as a member of the Algonquin Round Table and an advocate for Sacco ...
Sunday Night Skepticism
Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio. "Where did I go? I went where I had to go once it was time." (AP)
On July 29, 1951, Joe DiMaggio went 2-4 with two home runs and a walk, scoring three runs and driving in five. He had homered in the game before before as well. The outburst was part of a four-game ...
The Bad Boy and the Bambino
What's the link between Babe Ruth and the latest celebrity meltdown? (AP)
I’ve chosen to take a pass on Charllie Sheen’s recent public self-immolation, but what did catch my attention amid his tale of woe was Friday’s Deadspin piece concerning a memento the troubled star showed ...
An Unusual Hit Parade
The biggest hit of Edgar Martinez's career eliminated the Yankees from the 1995 postseason and carried even bigger ramifications for both teams (AP).
Earlier this week, while writing up a Baseball Prospectus/ESPN Insider piece advocating for the election of Edgar Martinez to the Hall of Fame, I came ...
The Last Days of Babe Derek Jeter Ruth
The dangers of staying too long at the party:
In Hawaii he played golf, laid a wreath on the grave of Alexander Joy Cartwright, the founder of American baseball, and complained after an exhibition game, “I guess I’m getting too old. Another year and I’ll have to quit.”
Ruppert and Barrow winced ...
