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Lloyd Waters: Baseball, apple pie and heroes
Back in the late 1950s and early ’60s, the school ground in Dargan was the place to be if you wanted to play a little baseball. All the kids in the community would enjoy their summer vacations from school by playing the most popular sport....Tags: Pies and Tarts, The Herald-Mail, World Series, Apples, Mickey Mantle
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The Sun remembers: Jan. 27-Feb. 2
Feb. 2, 2005: "I'm here in Baltimore, and I'm going to win the crowd," slugger Sammy Sosa says after being traded to the Orioles. A seven-time All-Star outfielder, the 36-year-old Sosa disappoints, mustering only 14 home runs, 45 RBIs and a .221 batting...
Tags: Indianapolis Colts, Los Angeles Lakers, Tony Siragusa, Matt Stover, North Carolina State Wolfpack
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Sammy Sosa hosting a webcast today at noon
RedEyeHe hit 609 home runs and created one grand slam of a Pinterest page. Now, former Cub Sammy Sosa wants to answer any and all questions that you might have. Sosa announced on his Facebook page that he’ll be hosting a live webcast today at noon,...Tags: Social Media, Sports, Business, Media Industry, Baseball
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Hall must provide clarity for voters
The Baseball Hall of Fame ballot was released Wednesday and the list of great players on it is so long that I honestly don't know what I'm going to do with mine when it arrives in the brown envelope from Cooperstown, N.Y. I could frame it. I could return...
Tags: Voting, Mike Mussina, Roger Clemens, Brian McNamee, Mike Piazza
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Sosa hopeful of reconnecting with Cubs
If the Cubs want to bridge the gulf between them and their career home-run leader, as Tom Ricketts hinted at the Cubs Convention over the weekend, Sammy Sosa says all they have to do is call. "I saw that the owner said he wanted to reach me, speak to me,...
Tags: Mark McGwire, Dominican Republic, Phil Rogers, Thomas Ricketts, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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Te'o and the blurred line of the social world
Why is this non-tragedy portrayed so tragically? Why the morbid focus, the sober debates, even the tears in the case of Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick? "The single most trusting individual I have ever met," he called Notre Dame football...
Tags: The Pennsylvania State University, HIV, Manti Te'o, Jerry Sandusky, Skype
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“Pete Rose: Hits & Mrs.” has baseball great stepping up to the reality-show plate
Channel Guide MagazineA lot of people view Pete Rose these days with a mixture of anger and pity. Anger that his long-ago sin of betting on baseball games still keeps the sport's all-time hit king out of the Hall of Fame, and pity at the sad caricature they think he's become.... -
Sammy Sosa plans another webcast
For RedEyeIf you missed your chance to ask Cubs slugger-turned-most-interesting-man-on-Pinterest Sammy Sosa a question during his webcast Wednesday, he’s got some good news for you. He had so much fun doing it that there’s going to be a sequel....Tags: Social Media
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Jeff Jacobs: Reign Delay - Nobody Gets In Hall This Year, And That's Good
The Hartford CourantIn the 144-year narrative of our national pastime, five men have hit 60 home runs in one season. Henry Aaron never did it. Willie Mays never did it. One did it three times. As his reward, Sammy Sosa received 71 of 569 possible votes (12.5 percent) for...Tags: Voting, Tony Perez, Roger Clemens, Willie Mays, Jeff Bagwell
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Video: Sammy Sosa losing grip on reality
Chicago Tribune sports columnist Steve Rosenbloom on Sammy Sosa's Ustream video interview. (Posted: Jan 24, 2013)
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Lance Armstrong, baseball's Hall and drug standards
After all this time, he's not sure if he read Lance Armstrong's book before his kidney was taken out or after, before the cancer spread to his lungs or later, before his doctors said to get his papers in order or not. "I just remember admiring his...
Tags: Bud Selig, Voting, Cycling, Roger Clemens, Fred McGriff
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Hall of Famers happy to see Bonds, Clemens denied
NEW YORK (AP) — Nobody was happier about the Hall of Fame shutout than the Hall of Famers themselves. Goose Gossage, Al Kaline, Dennis Eckersley and others are in no rush to open the door to Cooperstown for anyone linked to steroids. Barry...
Tags: New York Yankees, Al Kaline, Roger Clemens, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson
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