Month: May 2009
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May 15, 2008: Inside The Park
You never know what you’re going to see when you go out to the ballpark. Tonight I went out to the snazzy new Stadium in the Bronx to see the Yankees take on the Minnesota Twins. I did not expect to see Phil Hughes pitch a no-hitter. And he didn’t. I did not expect to…
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May 12 2009: Goodnight Professor
Given that Boston has just laid to rest one of its icons in Dominic DiMaggio, I thought I’d share with everyone some excerpts from an interview I did with him back in 2003, back when the Sox story was always one of heartbreak. We talked about a lot of heartbreakers in the interview, by necessity.…
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Tipping Points
There’s been much hoo-hah (that is a technical term, you know) in the media these days about the tipping of pitches. In particular, of course, it’s in response to Selena Roberts’ book on A-Rod, in which she posits a league-wide conspiracy among A-Rod and his sycophants and cronies on other teams, who would tip pitches…