Elephant Rumblings: Ranking America’s Baseball Cities, Rich Hill Notes

A’s Coverage:

• Oakland A’s winter/fall update: Photos and notes...
• WalletHub released a study ranking America’s baseball cities...

MLB News:

• A battle of the aging aces as Rich Hill and Justin Verlander face off tonight..
• Temperature at first pitch of World Series reaches record 103 degrees...
• Giancarlo Stanton still hasn’t spoken to new Marlins’ ownership...
• Recent history hasn’t been kind to World Series game one losers...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Rich Hill didn't join Astros; now he wants to beat them...
• The Justin Turner at-bat that may have changed the World Series...
• The Astros’ Bewildering Offensive Approach...
• Can MLB find a more uniform way for pitchers to develop a satisfactory grip?
• Where were World Series players drafted?
• A dive into the Kershaw-Reddick “Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Night” at bat...
• 10 WAYS BASEBALL HAS BEEN DIMINISHED...

Today in Baseball History:

• 1986 - Down to their last out at Shea Stadium, the New York Mets rally for three runs with two outs in the 10th inning against the Boston Red Sox to win 6-5 and push the World Series to a decisive seventh game. The tie-breaking run scores on Boston first baseman Bill Buckner's error on Mookie Wilson's slow grounder.
• 1996 - Frank Torre, the brother of New York Yankees manager Joe Torre, receives a heart transplant after months of waiting. Frank was the recipient of a World Series ring as a member of the Milwaukee Braves when they beat the Yankees in 1957, and his brother Joe will make him a gift of a World Series ring that's 39 years newer after Game 6 of the 1996 Series.

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