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Mike Trout turning heads, turning up heat for Angels
SEATTLE -- Mike Trout has been touted as one of baseball's top three prospects for two years, and one scout even compared him to a young Mickey Mantle, so he's used to seeing his name connected with a fair number of superlatives. But this one came out of...
Tags: Trout, Baseball, ESPN (tv network), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Albert Pujols
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Babe Ruth's 1920 Yankees jersey sells for $4.4 million
Who will end up with the prize of the sports memorabilia auction isn’t yet clear, but the winning bid certainly was enough to grab anyone's attention. A New York Yankees jersey that is the earliest known uniform to be worn by Babe Ruth sold for a...
Tags: Lawrence Taylor, New York Yankees, James Naismith, Boston Red Sox, Auction Service
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Bobbleheads aren't just for baseball
Think of bobblehead dolls as a sub-species of the American fan, smaller but more likable and in the long run, probably worth far more.
Like most items these days, they are made in bulk in China, but there is a burgeoning collection of companies that...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Steve Garvey, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Chris Erskine, Tiger Woods
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'Chief skunk' at a hush-hush weapons complex
The gig: Alton D. Romig Jr., 58, is "chief skunk" at Lockheed Martin Corp.'s famed Skunk Works secretive weapons development facility in Palmdale. It's one of the most coveted jobs in aerospace.
For more than 70 years, workers at the shadowy site have...Tags: NASA, Allentown, Military Equipment, Science and Technology, Lehigh University
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Book review: Frank Deford goes deep, as usual
Special to the Los Angeles TimesA bio on NPR's website of its commentator Frank Deford notes that the magazine GQ christened him, quite simply, "the world's greatest sportswriter." (Is he?) A story on ESPN's companion website, Grantland, referred to Deford as "a writer who had...Tags: NPR, ESPN (tv network), Jimmy Connors, Harlem Globetrotters, Bryant Gumbel
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Did the Yankees leave Mickey Mantle unprotected in the 1968 expansion draft?
BASEBALL URBAN LEGEND: The Yankees left Mickey Mantle unprotected in the 1968 expansion draft. Major League Baseball (MLB) has held six expansion drafts in its history (1960, 1961, 1968, 1976, 1992 and 1997) , where incoming expansion teams can draft...
Tags: Lou Piniella, Kansas City Royals, Major League Baseball, Joe Cronin, Whitey Ford
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Fenway Park at 100: What is it about that ballpark?
Within a single week in April 1912, one icon of the ages sank and another rose. The Titanic took its legendary dive just over a century ago, on April 15. Five days later, the first crack of a baseball bat signaled a piece of history snapping into...
Tags: New York Yankees, Major League Baseball, Johnny Pesky, Joe DiMaggio, Boston Red Sox
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Is Chipper Jones a Hall of Famer?
Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones announced Thursday that 2012 would be his final season in baseball, bringing an end to a major-league career that began in 1993. This raises one question: Is Chipper Jones a Hall of Famer? Examine the evidence,...
Tags: Chipper Jones, New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves, Jeff Bagwell, Gary Sheffield
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'Damn Yankees' and the passions they stir
Tribune Newspaper CriticA couple of years ago, for Father's Day, my family bought me the interactive video game MLB 2K9 for the Wii. The great thing about the game, and also its enduring frustration, is its verisimilitude — playing as the 2009 New York Yankees, I had...Tags: New York Yankees, Chuck Knoblauch, Major League Baseball, New York Mets, Trot Nixon
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Fifty years ago, Maury Wills made crime pay off for the Dodgers
In the good old days, say 50 years ago, the Dodgers' heroes were actual players, not equity fund executives and magical former basketball stars. Case in point: Maurice Morning Wills. Maury Wills, now 79, first stepped onto the field in Dodger blue on...
Tags: Chicago Cubs, Major League Baseball, Atlanta Braves, Bill Dwyre, Pee Wee Reese
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Dodger Stadium: Top 10 moments
On the eve of the home opener that marks the start of Dodger Stadium's 50th-anniversary season, The Times selects the 10 most memorable moments in the history of one of America's great ballparks.
1. Gibson's home run
Oct. 15, 1988
The most dramatic...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Mark McGwire, Injuries and Wounds, Willie Davis, Vin Scully
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Patt Morrison Asks: Dodgers dugout doc Sue Falsone
The Dodgers' pitchers and catchers will show up at Camelback Ranch in Arizona in a few days for spring training. And so will Sue Falsone. She won't be in the stands; she'll be in the dugout and the clubhouse, with the guys. She's the Dodgers' new head...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Curt Schilling, Orthopedic Surgery, College Baseball, Boston Red Sox
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