1 day ago by College Baseball 360

Former Washington Husky Joins Impressive List Of Consecutive Winners. NEW YORK (AP) — Former Washington Husky and San Francisco Giants ace Tim Lincecum won the NL Cy Young Award on Thursday for the second straight year, emerging from one of the tightest votes in the history of the honor to become th ...

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3 days ago by josephsreviews

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3 days ago by josephsreviews

“Maybe he realized… the utter aloneness of the fighter – despite the hangers-on, the crowds, the adulation, it was a pitiless profession.” “It was a savage sport, but it held a kind of sacredness to him – a mystery.” Few biographies of great athletes manage to conquer the legend; to place the athlet ...

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7 days ago by Parker

Our post on Vin Scully, 81, who just wrapped up his 60th season calling play-by-play for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers (and plans to stay on through next season), elicited some wonderful reader comments. First, Frank MacDonald (yes, that Frank MacDonald, the other Inverness County writer who ...

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8 days ago by Jerry Milani

The argument has raged for decades as to which was the “Golden Age” of baseball? Was it the 1920s, when Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Rogers Hornsby posted huge offensive numbers? The 1950s, with Willie, Mickey and the Duke? The 1980s, during which nine different franchises won the World Series? In a pa ...

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9 days ago by Randy Williams

This beautifully-packaged, digitally preserved celebration of the Fall Classic is a magnificent collection of all the drama and unforgettable moments of the World Series. Encased in a hardcover book that includes a 58-page pictorial retrospective going back to the event’s origins in 1903, are 65 fil ...

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9 days ago by Salami

TOP 5 ALL TIME Vin Scully who is one of baseballs greatest announcers of all time has decided to stick around the broadcast booth in 2010 and do what he does best, announce Los Angeles Dodgers games. Scully who turns 82 later this month, has seen his share of amazing moments through his 60 years as ...

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16 days ago by Roberto

Check out this picture and more at Blue Heaven. This is Sandy Koufax and a new convertible. Nice!

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17 days ago by sideshow

Ah yes, the checklist. There’s no worse feeling than ripping open a pack of cards and seeing one of these sitting on top. You basically just got screwed. Nobody actually wants the checklist cards, but any complete set must have them. Sadly, this is one of the crispest cards I have in the set — sharp ...

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17 days ago by sideshow

One in a series of 12 league leader cards that show the top three finishers in a variety of categories from the 1963 season, this is the least valuable (along with #2, which features the AL ERA leaders) of the group. Perhaps it shows what collectors think of Jim Bunning as a Hall of Famer that he’s ...

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