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69 years ago, Jackie Robinson changed baseball forever.
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In 1996, the Auburn Astros Minor League Baseball franchise changed its name to the Auburn Doubledays to honor the purported inventor of baseball. A motel in Cooperstown is also named after Doubleday, but unlike Cartwright, Doubleday was never inducted into the Hall.
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How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball. In this lavishly illustrated picture book, renowned artist David Shannon presents a parable about a happy world undermined when one power-hungry, bitter man outlaws baseball. When baseball disappears, so does spring. ... It's up to a little boy to save the world--through baseball.
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['Tyler Skaggs, RHP. July 13, 1991-July 1, 2019. ... ', 'Luis Valbuena, INF. Nov. ... ', 'Yordano Ventura, RHP. June 3, 1991-Jan. ... ', 'Jose Fernandez, RHP. July 31, 1992-Sept. ... ', 'Tommy Hanson, RHP. Aug. ... ', 'Oscar Taveras, OF. June 19, 1992-Oct. ... ', 'Greg Halman, OF. Aug. ... ', 'Nick Adenhart, RHP. Aug.']
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The game only lets you change your nickname once. After you change it, there's no going back.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — Carl Yastrzemski is the greatest living Red Sox player. He's rarely seen in Boston, isn't sure he'll ever return to Cooperstown, but feels the love every time he returns to Fenway Park to throw a ceremonial first pitch before yet another World Series victory.
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Pop Snyder is the all-time leader in passed balls with 763 and the only player to allow more than 700 career.
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In the long history of major league ball, 40 former players became major league umpires. While never a common career move, it was not uncommon in the late 19th and early 20th centuries but became less so as the 20th century progressed.
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The Man Behind The 'Moneyball' Sabermetrics Bill James was working at a Kansas cannery when he came up with an idea that would transform baseball. The movie Moneyball tells the story of that idea and how the Oakland Athletics ran with it. James talks about the film and how his idea changed baseball.
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A genius with dark secrets Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe. Revered in his own lifetime, he discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus. He helped to shape our rational world view.
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Hank Aaron is alive and well." Aaron, who turned 79 on Feb. 5, played 21 seasons for the Braves and retired in 1976 as baseball's all-time home run leader, a record that has since been broken by Barry Bonds. "Hammerin' Hank" remains baseball's career leader for runs batted in.
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31, 1993, when the Cardinals traded him to the Yankees. Smith then pitched for four different teams from 1994-97. ... Smith was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2019.
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Reginald Martinez Jackson (born May 18, 1946) is an American former professional baseball right fielder who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and California Angels. ... Jackson was nicknamed "Mr.
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The photograph was of Ed McKeever, an owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers — not of Charles H. Ebbets, the owner for whom the stadium was named. Bob McGee is the author of “The Greatest Ballpark Ever: Ebbets Field and the Story of the Brooklyn Dodgers.”
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Jayson Werth Says 'Super Nerds' Are Killing Baseball: 'It's a Joke' Former MLB outfielder Jayson Werth said Wednesday that "super nerds" are killing baseball. ... "When they come down, these kids from MIT, Stanford, Harvard, wherever they're from, they've never played baseball in their life," he told Eskin.
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Hall of Famer Edd Roush holds the distinction as the player who used the heaviest bat in MLB history. Roush, who debuted with the Chicago White Sox in 1913, used a 48-ounce behemoth.
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How David Bowie invented Ziggy Stardust, the alter ego that changed music forever and sent his career into orbit. “What I did with my Ziggy Stardust was package a totally credible, plastic rock & roll singer – much better than the Monkees could ever fabricate,” David Bowie later said of his definitive alter ego.