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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: Lou Gehrig's Disease, Sports Illustrated, Fenway Park, Wii, New York Mets
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Scoreboard
TV SPORTS Women's College Basketball-Michigan at Purdue, 5:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Penn State at Northwestern, 7:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Idaho at Nevada, 10 p.m. (ESPNU) Men's College Basketball-Xavier at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); Villanova at...Tags: Willie Stargell, Rube Marquard, Eddie Plank, Joe Cronin, Clark Griffith
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Year-by-year inductees
(BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; VC: Elected by the Veterans Committee; NL: Elected by the Veterans Committee based on Negro league career): 1936 -- BBWAA: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Honus...Tags: Willie Stargell, Orlando Cepeda, Rube Marquard, Herb Pennock, Joe Cronin
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Sandberg closer to Cooperstown
Tribune baseball reporterTrue to his style as a Sherwin-Williams kind of guy, Ryne Sandberg won't try to describe his 16-year career as some masterwork by Picasso. He would rather not discuss it at all. "You're asking me to brag about myself," Sandberg said Tuesday when asked if...Tags: Ron Santo, Politics, Orlando Cepeda, Crimes, Wrigley Field
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Did Billy Martin have a problem with Ken Holtzman?
WatchdogMSG will begin re-running ESPN's "Bronx is Burning" series at 9 p.m. Sunday night, with extensive supplementary interviews the network has dubbed the "Summer of '77." Not surprisingly, Reggie Jackson's sitdown with his old friend and teammate Fran Healy...Tags: New York, Fenway Park, Reggie Jackson, ESPN (tv network), Jim Rice
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More spring training memories
The Business of Sports | Sun-Sentinel BlogsThe rich history of spring training in South Florida has been slowly wearing away during the past two decades as teams that once made Florida???s southeast coast their spring homes have moved elsewhere to fancy new venues. The news this......Tags: Whitey Ford, World War II (1939-1945), Brooks Robinson, Jim Palmer, Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Sports Legends Revealed: How did the 'Larry Bird exception' to the NBA salary cap get its name?
The Fabulous ForumBASKETBALL LEGEND: The "Larry Bird exception" to the NBA salary cap got its name from the Celtics being the first team to go over the salary cap to re-sign one of their players, namely Larry Bird. STATUS: False. In 1983,...... -
Dallas Braden perfect game: Dallas Braden to appear on David Letterman
Sentinel Sports Now» Orlando Sentinel – Sentinel Sports NowFollowing the tradition of perfect pitched MLB games, Oakland A's pitcher Dallas Braden will present the Top Ten list on David Letterman Tuesday night.... -
Highlights Of George Steinbrenner's Career As Owner Of The New York Yankees
Jan. 3, 1973 - Heads group that purchases Yankees from CBS Inc.
Sept. 30, 1973 - Manager Ralph Houk resigns, the first of 20 managerial changes under Steinbrenner through 1995.
Aug. 30, 1974 - Fined $15,000 by U.S. District Court in Cleveland...Tags: Health, Joe Girardi, Fines, Chicago White Sox, Sports
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Yankees Owner Steinbrenner Dies
Web ReporterHe was baseball's bombastic Boss. He rebuilt the New York Yankees dynasty, ushering in the era of multimillion-dollar salaries and accepting nothing less in return than World Series championships. He fired managers. Rehired them. And fired them again....Tags: Health, Television Industry, CBS Corp., Ronald Reagan, Elections
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George Steinbrenner dies at 80; owner of New York Yankees
George Steinbrenner, who made his name synonymous with the revival of the New York Yankees as a dominant baseball team and leveraged multiple championships into business ventures that forever changed the economics of the sport, has died. He was 80....Tags: Sports Illustrated, Philadelphia Phillies, Television Industry, CBS Corp., Television Stations
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O's get blown away by Pettitte
Had New York Yankees third baseman Jerry Hairston Jr. been able to field Adam Jones' routine ground ball in the seventh inning Monday night, Andy Pettitte's dominating performance might well have been a historic one.
It's impossible to know whether...Tags: Brian Roberts, Whitey Ford, Alex Rodriguez, Melvin Mora, Tennis
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