Huh: Lou Gehrig, a heroic slugger for the Yankees baseball team, was famed for brushing aside repeated fractures and batting after nearly being knocked unconscious, before giving his name to the disease that was said to have killed him. But a new study suggests that...
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My favorite detail about the Shot Heard Round the World is that after the game Thomson rode the subway home (apparently major league ballplayers in New York in the 1950s.
Ackerman: You eat at enough DFACs and you’re going to see some awesomely bad Armed Forces Network commercials. One series that I actually like features MLB players, vets and managers.
Or, what can Don Wakamatsu and Martin O'Neill possibly have in common, besides either newfound unemployment or having managed teams that I give a damn about (the Mariners and Celtic, respectively)? Aston Villa manager O'Neill shockingly resigned with immediate effect only days before the season is...
A Yankees fan friend (to the extent to such a thing is possible) comments: Definition of a masochist: Mets' fan who watches his team lose a one-run game to the.
R.I.P. Dustin Moseley wins the Kei Igawa memorial award as the replacement-level pitcher who looks like Pete Alexander in a crucial game against Boston. And yet -- I may have.
Dusty Baker removed Travis Wood after 103 pitches tonight, despite the fact that he was pitching a two hit shutout. I am duly impressed. I also worry that these Reds are going to break my heart...
So the National League tried to help out the poor defenseless Yankees before the season by trading them a quality starter for a marginal fifth outfielder, but so far it's.
And it gives me an excuse to post this video again! They're so far behind their divisional opposition that I don't know much it will help, but I think this.
Thanks, Jim; you're making the most of your twilight as a US Senator: A reporter from Politico asked Bunning for his thoughts about Nationals right-hander Stephen Strasburg missing his start on Tuesday with shoulder soreness. Bunning grabbed his arm with a fake exclamation of pain and then...
Since I was accused in comments of "east coast bias" for thinking that the Mets considering a swap of expensive useless players for expensive useless players probably wasn't going to.
Bill Conlin's article about undeserving Hall of Famers makes a lot of odd choices (if otherwise clearly qualified managers are to be excluded for using profanity, for example, the ranks.