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MLB to Add Playoff Tier
Expanded playoffs are coming to baseball, with a new tier of wild-card playoffs in advance of the current three-round arrangement, but they’re not coming fast enough. Come on, guys. Get with it! Rather than try to push through a side agreement that could put the 10-team format — two wild cards in each league, not [...]
Full StoryBaseball, Barry Bonds and Steroids
In the last 10 years the growing popularity and use of illegal substances like steroids in major league baseball has created a public outcry and led to indictments, arrests and congressional hearings. Some have even put major league baseball on par with professional wrestling as it is now a drugged or juiced game and old, [...]
Full Story1969 World Series
The New York Mets, who had never finished higher than ninth place (next-to-last) nor won more than 73 games in a season since joining the National League in 1962, were not highly regarded before the 1969 season started. In fact, the best that could be said for them was that because the National League was [...]
Full Story1965 MLB Season Remembered
The 1965 season was a season of change for some teams in Major League Baseball. The League was still changing and there were teams like the Astros and the Braves that were in transition. The Astros moved into the Astrodome and became the first Major League Baseball team to play indoors. The Braves were likewise [...]
Full StoryNew York Mets and the History of Shea Stadium
In the 1950s, New York lost both the Giants and the Dodgers and rumors stated that the teams left, in part, due to the fact that they wanted a new stadium. This left New York with only one remaining baseball team. By 1960, National League owners were ready to award new baseball franchise teams to [...]
Full StoryNew York Yankees – Robinson Cano Could Be Yanks’ Best Overall Hitter
With contracts the size of the GDP for a small country, Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, Mark Teixeira and C.C. Sabathia have all established themselves as the prominent Yankees that get most of the media attention. Certainly their efforts last season were instrumental in taking down the World Series ring that the Steinbrenners have wanted so [...]
Full StoryA.J. Burnett out of Yankees Rotation – Thank God!
Andy Pettitte was magnificent in Game 2, while Phil Hughes will start Game 3 tonight when the series moves from Minnesota to the Bronx. Yankees manager Joe Girardi wants to throw as many lefties as he can against a Minnesota lineup that is loaded with dangerous lefties, so he will bring Sabathia back for Game [...]
Full StoryBaseball – The Love Of The Game
I have always had a fondness for the game of baseball. As a kid, I played Little League but also carried my glove and bat with me just about everywhere for a quick pickup game whether it was before or after school, or during recess. Growing up in Connecticut, I followed the early 1960′s Yankees [...]
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