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In the rough-and-tumble baseball of the 1890s, Baltimore rose to the top with skill and guile
A century ago, Baltimore was a bustling, brawling, blue-collar city of 500,000, teeming with trolleys and privies and chimneys that belched coal smoke. The skyline was beveled by breweries and churches. Cardinal Gibbons and Enoch Pratt were people, not...
Tags: Hughie Jennings, Ottawa Senators, San Francisco Giants, Willie Keeler, Baltimore Orioles
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Is Rivera the best closer of all time?
Forever a cut above Phil Rogers Chicago Tribune Let's be honest. Luis Gonzalez didn't exactly smoke his single off Mariano Rivera in Game 7 of the 2001 World Series. He fought off a cutter and fisted it just out of Derek Jeter's reach. But that's the...
Tags: New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Baseball, World Series, Pedro Martinez
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Scene & Heard: Harold Pump Foundation celebrity fundraiser
Special to the Los Angeles TimesA crowd rich in sports legends, Academy Award winners and recording stars packed the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza for the Harold Pump Foundation's anniversary celebration. The honorees at the Aug. 12 event were Denzel Washington, Hank Aaron, Muhammad...Tags: Edward Ruscha, Hank Aaron, George Lopez , Michael Strahan, Health
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Ocean View student wins award for PSA
Teenagers might face many problems these days — from demanding classes, bullying at school and in some cases trouble at home — that could lead to depression, or even suicide. It is the signs for these troubles that Jonathan Lee, a...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Sports, Brooks Robinson, Baseball
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Win-or-go-home games becoming norm
Once upon a time, the chance to go to Great American Ball Park and watch the Reds play a win-or-go-home game in the playoffs would have been the chance of a lifetime for fans in Cincinnati. The franchise hadn't played one since 1975, and that was at...
Tags: Barry Zito, Homer Bailey, Ross Detwiler, Jay Bruce, Detroit Tigers
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Orioles' Jim Johnson, Rays' Fernando Rodney show importance of closers
When the Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays begin a three-game series Tuesday at Camden Yards, the two most effective relievers in the American League will be in uniform. It's fair to speculate that without Orioles closer Jim Johnson and Rays closer Fernando...
Tags: Jered Weaver, Baltimore Orioles, Kyle Farnsworth, American League, Buck Showalter
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Big leaguers honor baseball pioneer
NEW YORK - LaTroy Hawkins has heard the stories from his 87-year-old grandfather, about his days of picking cotton in Mississippi, about the times when there were no black players in big league baseball.
And about what it meant when Jackie Robinson...Tags: Boston Red Sox, Michael Bourn, Jackie Robinson, Frank Robinson, Major League Baseball
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In the Pipeline: Ham radio to the rescue
A recent headline on Reuters read: "Subculture of Americans prepares for civilization's collapse." The subsequent story documented a subculture of Americans who refer to themselves as "preppers." As the story stated, "Some are driven by a fear of imminent...Tags: FBI, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Baseball, Libraries
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TILL FEB. 18 'Centered on the Center' The Huntington Beach Art Center presents a non-juried exhibition at 538 Main St., Huntington Beach. Gallery hours are noon to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, noon to 6 p.m. Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. For more...Tags: Music, Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning, Auction Service, Health
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BLOWN SAVE GUIDELINES NEED TO BE CHANGED ...
The Hog BlogIf you look at the official boxscore from the Phillies spring training opener with the Yankees on Saturday, you'll see that Dave Bush was charged with a blown save in the 8-5 loss. That's because the likely IronPigs starter "failed" to protect the 2-1... -
In The Pipeline: Baseball greats make the best save
Last year in this column space, I wrote about a special event at SeaCliff Country Club. It was a golf outing and banquet put on by KinderVision that featured a slew of Major League Baseball legends, including Rollie Fingers and Harmon Killebrew....Tags: Harmon Killebrew, Social Issues, Television, Clubs and Associations, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Hank Aaron, Octavio Dotel, Hank Greenberg, Jake Beckley, Rube Foster
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