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Ozzie, No Harriet
Colorful manager Ozzie Guillen of the Chicago White Sox, who captured a rare World Series for the franchise in 2005, will not return in 2012. In fact, I do not think he will be finishing out the 2011 season with … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago White Sox, Florida Marlins, Ozzie Guillen, World Series
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Ian Kennedy, Clayton Kershaw, Justin Verlander
One of the true surprises, if not shocks, of 2011 is the success of Yankees castoff Ian Kennedy (21-4). His earned-run average is something like 2.88 and he has nearly 200 strikeouts. As the Yankees were developing Phil Hughes, Ian … Continue reading
Congratulations to Bob Uecker and the Brew Crew
The Milwaukee Brewers have not been to the postseason since 1982. 1982! Congratulations to Bernie Brewer, and, above all, long-suffering broadcasting great, former backstop of the St. Louis Cardinals, star of Mr. Belvedere, known simply as “Mr. Baseball” himself, Bob … Continue reading
Moneyball Opens in a Theater Near You
The much-anticipated baseball film Moneyball about the Oakland Athletics and super-baseball-brain Billy Beane opens today to advance raves. Let’s demand similar insider films for cricket fans!
Clayton Kershaw
Evander doesn’t get much news from The Coast: It rarely filters in to Right Off the Bat HQ. But I have been clued in to Dodgers phenom Clayton Kershaw. He has won twenty games in his first year: Doc Gooden-like. … Continue reading
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Tagged Clayton Kershaw, Doc Gooden, Joe Torre, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, Sandy Koufax, Tim Lincecum
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Jorge Posada Redeemed
Who knew back in May it would be Jorge Posada to deliver the hit to propel the New York Yankees to the Eastern Division title? Pinch hitting for phenom Jesus Montero, who ultimately may take the veteran’s position as the … Continue reading
All Across the Telegraph His Name It Did Resound
Mariano Rivera mowed down the Minnesota Twins in the ninth inning of a close game, during the heat of a pennant race, thereby becoming the all-time leader in saves in baseball history. He did it at Yankee Stadium and made … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, Right Off the Bat Website, Yankees
Tagged Arizona Diamondbacks, Bob Feller, Boston Red Sox, Jackie Robinson, John Wettland, Literature, Marco Scutaro, Mariano Rivera, Mark McGwire, Minnesota Twins, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Pedro Martinez, Sachin Tendulkar, Sandy Koufax, Seattle Mariners, Tampa Bay Rays, Ted Williams
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Baseball Nostalgia
If ever there were a sport to indulge a sense of nostalgia, baseball is it. (Cricket fans: I, Evander, can hear you: What about us? It’s the same impulse of course.) I happen to have a seat bottom from the … Continue reading
Two Big Hotstove League Dates in January 2012
January 2012 has two dates of especial revolutionary significance for all our devoted followers. January 5 is the ninety-second anniversary of the sale of Babe Ruth by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees. It was the birth … Continue reading
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Tagged Babe Ruth, Boston Red Sox, Literature, New York Yankees
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Congratulations to Mariano Rivera
Under a Yeatsean full moon, beneath the Rabbit On The Moon (as I have been taught), in Seattle, a franchise against which he first revealed his greatness on a post-Yom Kippur night in October 1995, Mariano Rivera scored the six-hundredth … Continue reading
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Tagged A. J. Burnett, Brian Robertson, Ichiro Suzuki, Literature, Mariano Rivera, Rafael Soriano, Russell Martin
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