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On 'El Hombre' & 'The Man'
Over the past few days, the inevitable Albert Pujols-centric advertising campaign for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim was rolled out. The opening advertisements are billboards around Orange County featuring a photograph of Pujols from the back in that near-perfect follow-through. One of the...
Pujols & the St. Louis Cardinals: What Will Never Be
My earliest St. Louis Cardinals memory isn't a game I attended or watched on television. It's a singular moment in the history of the franchise and baseball that took place decades before I was born and was preserved for posterity on vinyl. That moment is Stan Musial's 3,000th hit at Wrigley Field...
Top 10 All-Star Game Moments: Stan Musial's Extra Inning Walk-Off
Stan Musial's 1955 All-Star game was loaded with memorable moments, as he set (at the time) the record for most All-Star appearances with 12, breaking the tie he had held with Mel Ott and Joe DiMaggio. This also allowed him to set the record for most plate appearances in the mid-summer classic, but...
Today in Sports History: May 13th
(Fisher fires over Manu Ginobili. Photo by John W. McDonough, SI Photos) 5/13/1958 - "Stan the Man" gets 3,000th hitStan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals joins the 3,000 hit club as a pinch hitter, doubling off Moe Drabowsky of the Cubs in Wrigley Field. A 24-time All-Star and a three-time MVP,...
Today in Sports History: June 10th
6/10/1944 - 15 year-old Nuxhall debuts with Reds With many of baseball's biggest stars serving in World War II (such as Ted Williams, Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, and Yogi Berra), the doors opened up for a plethora of rejects to make it to the majors. Pete Gray, the only one-armed...
Gordon Beckham Allows White Sox Fans To Dream
I was going to take this off-day to write a glowing piece about Gordon Beckham. He hasn't really been the sole focus of anything I've written since writing that he would be "fine" during his second week in the majors. Since then, almost as if he'd been given permission, Beckham has smoked (or is it...
Father's Day presence
I think I must have inherited that part of my Dad's genetic code that loved the St. Louis Cardinals. It was something we shared from my earliest awareness of the sporting world in the summer of 1962, 'til the day he died just after the 2007 season. For both of us it was a passion that stretched...
Graph of the Afternoon: Ruth, Gehrig, Williams, Aaron, Musial
I'm very, very excited by what we can do now with Sean Smith's updated WAR database. The top 300 player index hasn't been updated yet, but I don't need the index to know who 5 of the best players of all time were. For our first look into the golden age of baseball, I picked the top 5 players...
Lewis Wolff Athletics Nation Interview: Part II
Yesterday was Part I of the Athletics Nation exclusive interview with A's managing general partner Lewis Wolff. Today is Part II. Enjoy! <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves />...
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