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...That big guy. It's Game Seven, bottom of the ninth, two outs. You're down three runs with the bases loaded. The pitcher is scheduled to bat next. You smirk. You point your finger down the bench at the burly man with the red goatee. "You. Grab a bat." The man heads to the batter's box and launches one into the night. Game over. You win. The man is Mark McGwire...
Will, please, as a colleague and a friend, see the light before it's too late. Don't let your innocent little heart fall upon disappointment. Hampton is gonna outduel Kile tonight. Leiter is simply a money playoff pitcher. Then the series goes back to Shea. To Queens--New York...
Here's a little background. John Rocker is the infamous relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves who grabbed the national spotlight earlier this year for deriding gays, poking fun at Asians, espousing a distaste for foreigners and calling a black teammate of his a "fat monkey," all in the course of one Sports Illustrated Article...
Then, after the pitcher had walked in a run, there were few tense moments of uncertainty, and finally Rocker was called out to pitch. You know, I have never followed baseball religiously, but in my youth, I used to attend a lot of Cubs games during the summertime. When I was probably six or so, I watched Pete Rose tie Ty Cobb's long-standing record for the most number of hits in a career, and I can say without doubt, that that event no more than ties for most intense moment of sheer jubilation I have ever witnessed from...
...catcher, coach and scout who brought Jackie Robinson to the majors in 1947; in Waldoboro, Maine. Dodgers president Branch Rickey dispatched Sukeforth to scout Negro League shortstop Robinson despite an unwritten rule against black players. Sukeforth was also known to Brooklyn fans as the coach who in 1951 sent pitcher Ralph Branca rather than Carl Erskine in to face the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson in the ninth inning of the pennant play-off. On the second pitch, Thomson launched the "shot heard 'round the world," winning the pennant for the Giants...