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Should Chipper enter Hall on 1st ballot?
A simple comparison Steve Gould Baltimore Sun All you need to do to know that Chipper Jones is a first-ballot Hall of Famer is compare his career statistics to those of other third basemen enshrined in Cooperstown. Let's start with traditional stats....Tags: Los Angeles Times, Mickey Mantle, Chipper Jones, Chicago Tribune, Eddie Mathews
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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: Kid Nichols, Ted Lyons, Jorge De La Rosa, Lefty Gomez, Juan Gonzalez
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This Day in Orioles History: June 4
June 4, 1957: Future Hall-of-Famer George Kell got his 2,000th career hit. -
George Kell dies at 86; baseball Hall of Famer was longtime Tigers broadcaster
Times Staff And Wire ReportsGeorge Kell, the Hall of Fame third baseman for the Detroit Tigers who edged Ted Williams for the 1949 American League batting title and became a Tigers broadcaster for nearly 40 years, died Tuesday. He was 86. An announcement from the Hall of Fame...Tags: Brooks Robinson, American League, Bob Lemon, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox
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Kell, O's All-Star, Hall of Famer, dies
From Sun staff and news servicesGeorge Kell, the Hall of Fame third baseman who edged Ted Williams for the 1949 American League batting title before putting the finishing touches on his 15-year career with the Orioles, died Tuesday. He was 86. Jackson's Funeral Home in Newport, Ark.,...Tags: Brooks Robinson, Detroit Tigers, American League, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox
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'Viva Le Brooks!'
Sun reporterTwenty-four years ago, the Baseball Hall of Fame welcomed an Oriole known simply by his first name - a balding infielder who defined his position and bled orange all his life. Next week, Cooperstown, N.Y., will do this again. And like Brooks Robinson...Tags: Brooks Robinson, Cal Ripken, Jr., Bowie Kuhn, Bodies of Water, Cool Papa Bell
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Schmuck: VIP reception allows greats to again hear fans' cheers
Sun ReporterThey rolled out the red rug last night at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, but for the fans who lined the barricades to cheer the sport's greatest heroes, it might as well have been a magic carpet. The pending induction of likeable...Tags: Cal Ripken, Jr., Cincinnati Reds, Boston Red Sox, Jim Palmer, George Brett
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Tigers Hall of Famer George Kell Dead at 86
(AP) - George Kell, a Hall of Fame third baseman who outdueled Ted Williams for the 1949 American League batting title and finished his career with a batting average of .306, died Tuesday morning. He was 86. Kell played 14 years in the American League...Tags: American League, Ted Williams, Death, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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'Reckless' Richards cracks open O's coffers
Sun StaffIn seven years with the Orioles, Paul Richards made the largest trade in baseball history, signed Brooks Robinson, invented the oversized catcher's mitt and preached a pitching-and-defense philosophy that defined the Orioles for years after he was gone....Tags: Brooks Robinson, Spring Training, Dining and Drinking, Lee MacPhail, American League
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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: Nap Lajoie, Kid Nichols, Ted Lyons, William Hulbert, Don Sutton
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All-time White Sox All-Stars
1933 Al Simmons, OF Jimmy Dykes, 3B 1934 Simmons, OF Dykes, 3B 1935 Simmons, OF 1936 Luke Appling, SS Rip Radcliff, P Vern Kennedy, P 1937 Luke Sewell, C Monty Stratton, P 1938 Mike Kreevich, OF 1939 Appling, SS Ted Lyons, P 1940 Appling, SS 1941 Appling,...Tags: Ken Berry, Esteban Loaiza, Eddie Robinson, Ted Lyons, Ozzie Guillen
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Cornerstone at third base
Sun StaffBrooks Robinson's peers believe his defense wasn't just one of the Orioles' defining characteristics. His play at third base was the defining characteristic, they say. "The Orioles were built on having great defense, and Brooks was the cornerstone,"...Tags: Al Kaline, Brooks Robinson, Spring Training, Johnny Bench, American League
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