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The old-school names are back because many of those cumbersome numbers that baseball fans love more than the game itself (whisper the statistics 755, 56 or 61 softly enough to their real fans, and eyes will glisten) are in danger of changing. Cal Ripken Jr. sets a new record...
It's this pressure that McGwire is trying to avoid; at one point, he threatened to shut down the batting-practice show. The fanaticism is so intense, and even weird, that a fan wrote to the Cardinals asking for an old McGwire bat so he could use it as a...
DIED. FRANK SCOTT, 80, silver-tongued superagent to sports stars of yesteryear; in Livingston, N.J. Scott was the first agent to prove that his clients could pitch a product as well as a ball, shagging Yogi Berra Yoo-Hoo commercials, Roger Maris a gig for Camel cigarettes and Mickey Mantle...
What I think Mr. Beatty is really talking about is the old American duality of hipness vs. squareness. The words have changed over time--coolness vs. geekiness, fly vs. fool--but the concept is as venerable as the separation between church and state. Growing up, every American boy has to...
Baseball is back, and the new season is full of promise. We at Dartboard will be watching closely as Mark McGwire and Ken Griffey Jr. chase Roger Maris' home run record, the Milwaukee Brewers get acquainted to the National League and the Yankees look to justify their astronomical payroll with...