Baseball And Politics
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NASHUA, NH -- John Kerry&#39;s campaign hopes some of the Boston Red Sox&#39;s come-from-behind magic will rub off on their candidate.
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Some might assume Ichiro Suzuki&#39;s bid to supplant Sisler as baseball&#39;s single-season hits king threatens to undermine the late Hall of Famer&#39;s relevance as a future conversation topic.
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WASHINGTON - Richard Nixon was president and man was still making trips to the moon the last time the word "Washington" appeared in the major league baseball standings.    On Opening Day, April 4, 2005, look for the nation's capital to return...
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Manny Ramirez [stats, news]&#39; days as a Red Sox [stats, schedule] could be numbered. The Red Sox and Mets have been swapping ideas about how to pull off aneconomically-driven
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Linda Cropp just became my favorite baseball player. The chair of the Washington, D.C., city council doesn't own a uniform, won't ever set foot inside a batter's box, and probably couldn't break an egg if she had to throw it off a mound.
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The year&#39;s biggest upset in sports has to be the Boston Red Sox&#39;s improbable world championship. The biggest upset in politics: that choosing the president did not require Supreme Court intervention.
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Politics makes for strange bedfellows, but yesterday&#39;s intersection of politics and sports at Beacon and Park streets produced an amiably awkward pairing, even by Massachusetts standards.
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The wait for a baseball team is over. The debate over the name begins. With the Montreal Expos headed to the nation&#39;s capital, ideas for a suitable nickname for a baseball team at the seat
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Simon Robinson on why the game of cricket will always be about politics
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Commissioner Bud Selig will probably commend Jason Giambi for his cooperation with George J. Mitchell and take no action against him. The same cannot be said about Barry Bonds.
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There&#39;s baseball&#39;s postseason, basketball&#39;s preseason, boxing&#39;s never-ending season, and the NFL in full swing. Every fourth year, there&#39;s a presidential race coming down the homestretch too.
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Major League Baseball is back in the nation&#39;s capital for the first time since the Washington Senators team moved to Texas and became the Rangers in 1971.
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Barry Bonds and Albert Pujols: The aging slugger against his heir apparent.
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Except for religion, few things arouse as much emotion as politics and sports. Tuesday, New Yorkers will be able to indulge in both.
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For Anthony Williams, the mayor of Washington, this week&#39;s deal to return Major League Baseball to the nation&#39;s capital after
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22 is the number of votes needed from baesball team owners who jointly also own the money-losing Expos. And Baltimore Orioles officials say owner Peter Angelos is increasingly resigned to seeing the Montreal Expos play in Washington next year.
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WASHINGTON - The last time Washington's major league baseball team played a home game, fans stormed the field with two outs in the ninth inning in a show of anger and frustration over owner Bob Short's decision to move the team to Texas. But even then there was the expectation that in a relatively short time, major league baseball would find a way to put a team back in Washington...