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NYC Subway Series Round 2
The Subway before there was a regular-season Series: from the days when a Yankee Stadium home run meant something. The suddenly hot Mets, as hot as the weather this first day of summer (which is when...
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The Unhappy Recap, Part 3
Darryl Strawberry: The Mets begin to see the light. This is part 3 on “The Mets Dark Years” by former National Baseball Hall of Fame researcher and librarian Russell Wolinsky. The Management Following...
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A Most Unusual 2012
Miguel Cabrera: batsman nonpareilOn the eve of the finish of the 2012 Major League Baseball regular season, I (Evander) thought I ought to highlight a few of the unusual aspects of this most unusual...
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Playoffs So Far: More Unpredictability
Stephen Strasburg, Nats flamethrower, controversially m.i.a.The 2012 playoffs have so far featured a botched infield fly rule call against the hard-luck Atlanta Braves and a number of other surprises....
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Playoffs So Far: It Gets Weirder
Derek Jeter, peerless captain of the New York Yankees, during happier timesThis is truly one of the most bizarre postseasons I (Evander) have seen since playoffs-baseball was introduced in the major...
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Earl Weaver, Dead at 82, R.I.P.
Earl Weaver, full throttleThough a great strategist in and of what today is called small ball, his favorite play bluntly remained “the three-run home run.” His all-time winning percentage is .583. He...
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Predicting the 2013 Baseball Season
Forecasting baseball future, Kabbalah-style The 2013 baseball season, which opens on April Fools’ Day, promises to make a fool of all prognosticators. Nothing new in this. How could one imagine the...
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Always Wanted to Do This
Broadcasting the New York Yankees for 25 years: John Sterling I (Evander) always fantasized broadcasting a major-league baseball game—or at least one inning. But either at the stadium or in front of...
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2014 Major League Predictions
Putting away the snow shovel and dusting off the crystal ball….In time-honored fashion, and this being the ROTB Project blog-number 499, here come my (Evander’s) guesses for the 2014 Major League...
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Hold the Peanuts and Cracker Jack
Strange indeed when even the fans aren’t visibleBack in the day (1955-83) there was a DC Comics series called the Brave and the Bold, which sometimes featured “Strange Sports Stories.” Pictured left is...
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Streaking
Popular performance art in the heyday of Bobby Riggs: This type of streaker perdures. Like the proverbial first-small-step of the longest journey, record-MLB streaks begin innocently enough. Each...
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