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...grew older and saw players go to jail, go on strike and go on holdouts I began to get a different answer. They do not cry because they do not care. Well, at least for a few moments Monday night I saw a big leaguer who still cares, who cares enough to send us all back to dusty fields, to a Kessler's blazing fastballs and to flying clipboards...
James never forgets that baseball is supposed to be fun. His Historical Abstract, a playful decade-by-decade romp through baseball's past, picks the best and worst in many unlikely categories, including the logical selection of former Pitcher Don Mossi as the ugliest major leaguer of all time. Along the way, James explains why insulting nicknames, like that of Hugh ("Losing Pitcher") Mulcahy, tended to disappear in the '40s, how the coach's box evolved as an attempt to reduce violence in the days when baseball was a blood sport, and why the fatal beaning of Ray Chapman...
...think where everything started and stopped. But I've kept a fairly even keel, I hope, thanks to my family." He has a wife and two daughters. "And Reggie has taken me under his wing, telling me things about hitting but also showing me how to be a major leaguer. He's been the catalyst to my success...
...Robin Roberts. "I think maybe we're the most impressed of all," he says. "We know what he's doing, what a gift he has. It's obvious that his start is better than anyone else's, even Feller's. His control is better than Feller's." A big leaguer at 17, Feller was Gooden's age before he found the plate. "Go up and hit what you see," Bucky Harris used to advise his Washington Senators, "and if you don't see it, come on back." Ralph Kiner, the Mets' announcer, nee '40s slugger, testifies, "No question about...
...involved in another debacle in recent years, when he let Phil Niekro go to the Yankees, and then proceded to try to lure him back once he shone in the Big Apple. (Turner ended up settling for a statue of Neikro). Knucksie is also the oldest current major leaguer, having just celebrated another birthday on April 1. Five points if you can name Phil's exact age, and five more if you can identify the only player on the list below who is older than Niekro...