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New Dodgers Ownership Off to a Lively Start
Los Angeles TimesLOS ANGELES -- Making their first official appearance on a gray morning in a nearly empty stadium, new Dodgers owners lighted up the place Wednesday with raucous promise, defiant hope and only one certainty. Hang on to your blue, because it's going to be...Tags: Rebecca Hall, Antonio Villaraigosa, Baseball, Matt Kemp, Ed Reyes
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Power rankings: No. 3 Rangers
No. 3 Rangers: 28th in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Yankees.
One pitch away from a World Series parade in October. Tens of thousands to go in February, and that doesn't count those thrown on the back fields and in the batting cages....Tags: C.J. Wilson (football, defensive end) , Stan Musial, Colby Lewis, Baseball, Lance Berkman
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History Lesson
Anyone ever tell you history is dull, tedious and irrelevant? Not us. And for some particularly fascinating and relevant insights into black history, ditch the textbooks and head to these stage shows, which explore everything from the politics in...Tags: Entertainment Events, Music Theater, Entertainment, Ralph Ellison, Paul Robeson
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Baseball fans meet for diamond dialogue
Talk baseball with Washington native David Paulson for a few minutes, and his obsessive lifelong fandom pours out in facts, figures and lore.
He recalls how he loved the most obscure of Washington Senators players, like outfielder Stan Spence. How he...Tags: Culture, Baltimore Orioles, Baseball, World War II (1939-1945), Culture
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Here's what Ricketts needs to do
If Theo Epstein is Tom Ricketts’ top choice as Cubs general manager, then fine. Epstein presided over Boston’s historic collapse this year, which makes him very Cub, but he also has a couple World Series titles, which makes him a god around...Tags: Public Employees, Politics, Corporate Officers, Thomas Ricketts, Chicago Cubs
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Former Mariners GM Pat Gillick inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
Sunday afternoon, in Cooperstown, New York, the National Baseball Hall of Fame will welcome its three newest members. There's a skilled offensive and defensive second baseman who finished his career with nearly 3,000 hits. There's a top-of-the-line...Tags: Tony Fernandez, Politics, Baltimore Orioles, Ichiro Suzuki, Toronto Blue Jays
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Did Babe Ruth play a role in the origin of the MLB trade deadline?
The Fabulous ForumBASEBALL URBAN LEGEND: Babe Ruth played a part in the institution of Major League Baseball's first trade deadline. As we get closer to the July 31 Major League Baseball trade deadline, thoughts generally turn to where players like Carlos Beltran...... -
Clemson's Lamb, U.Va.'s Hultzen improve draft stock with memorable senior seasons
Will Lamb should be an open-and-shut case for Major League scouts. He is 6-foot-6, left-handed and throws 90 mph.
So you need not be fluent in sabermetrics or a descendent of Branch Rickey to project Lamb's baseball future.
He's a pitcher.
Or so he,...Tags: High School Sports, Clemson Tigers, Sports, Career and Workplace, College Baseball
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Book review: 'Branch Rickey' by Jimmy Breslin
Los Angeles Times Book CriticBranch Rickey Jimmy Breslin Viking/Penguin Lives: 148 pp., $19.95 "I had a problem for a writer," Jimmy Breslin tells us in the prologue to "Branch Rickey," his impressionistic portrait of baseball's great emancipator, the man responsible for...Tags: Barack Obama, Human Interest, Politics, Los Angeles Times, Jackie Robinson
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Baseball books in play
Los Angeles TimesAh, the sounds of spring. The crack of the bat, the smack of the ball hitting the catcher's mitt, the ka-ching of cash registers totaling up sales of books on baseball out this season. Just as ESPN seems to lean toward the American League East for...Tags: Derek Jeter, Stan Musial, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Minor League Baseball, Roy Campanella
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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: Warren Giles, Politics, Hiroki Kuroda, Joe Cronin, Northwest Division (NHL)
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Duke Snider dies at 84; Dodger Hall of Famer
Duke Snider, one of the Brooklyn Dodgers' "Boys of Summer" and among a celebrated trio of New York center fielders in the 1950s, died Sunday. He was 84.
Snider died at Valle Vista Convalescent Hospital in Escondido, the Dodgers announced. No cause was...Tags: Human Interest, Television, Don Drysdale, American League, Baseball
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