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The 1994 Rotisserie League Baseball Official Rule Book and Draft-Day Guide
A year ago ago, I came across a curious find in my in-laws' house: The 1994 Rotisserie League Baseball Official Rule Book and Draft-Day Guide. My in-laws are not huge sports fans, so finding this in their possession was an oddity in and of itself. But beside that, this book provides an interesting...
Things We Didn't Know Back In 1986
Just came across this little gem, the cover of Time magazine back on April 7, 1986. From the cover story, 'Dr. K Is King of the Hill': Off the field, Gooden is also the picture of control. ..."I think it's just another natural gift of Dwight's," Strawberry says, "handling New York, handling the...
Pitching Bias in Mets Hall of Fame
I'm willing to hypothetically bet $20 that your favorite Mets player of all time wasn't a pitcher. Oh, I might have to pay out on a few bets. Surely, some of you will designate Tom Seaver as the Met most likely to set your nostalgic heart all a-flutter. Others might give Jerry Koosman the...
Dwight Gooden: Remembering What Could Have Been
(Click here for larger image) The first year I really started paying attention to baseball was 1985. I was seven years old and living in Northern New Jersey. My father was a Mets fan and my grandfather a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, so when it came to choosing between the two New York ball clubs you...
A Georgia Bulldogs Fan Assesses Urban Meyer's Tenure with the Florida Gators and Adjusts to Life Without "Corch"
All the federales say They could have had him any day They only let him slip away Out of kindness, I suppose Townes Van Zandt, "Pancho and Lefty" That's why we took the damn field. Now if you want to crown them, then crown their ass! But they are who we thought they were! And we let 'em off the...
Today in Sports History: August 25th
8/25/1894 - Schriver catches ball from monument Since its construction forty years earlier, many baseball players had wondered if it was possible to catch a ball from the top of the Washington Monument -- the largest obelisk in the world. Buck Ewing, Charley Snyder, and Paul Hines had failed, but...
Diamondbacks 14, Mets 1: Hall Of Lame
Through 3.1 innings, Jon Niese didn't allow a hit or walk and notched two strikeouts. Thoughts of the franchise's first no-hitter danced in the heads of some fans, on Mets Hall of Fame induction day no less. Then, with one out in the fourth, Kelly Johnson walked, Justin Upton broke up the no-no...
Random Doc Gooden Poll
With the Mets off today, I re-read Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends, a recommended collection of baseball mythbusting featuring an excellent foreword by Bill James. Rob investigated an anecdote from Dwight Gooden's book, Heat, and also looked at an excerpt from Mel Stottlemyre's book, Pride...
Graph of the Day: Lefty, Doc and J.R.
Going nostalgic, for me. J.R. Richard, Steve Carlton and Dwight Gooden were three of the most dominant pitchers I remember from my youth. Richard was the pitcher at my first ever ballgame (4/15/79, double header), Lefty blazed fastballs and sliders on my TV as a child, and Doc blew my mind as a...
Saturday Applesauce
I mentioned it yesterday, but Brandon Knight is making his first big league start tonight against the Cardinals in place of Pedro Martinez, who is on the bereavement list after the death of his father. Knight was out of baseball last season before his wife convinced him to take a spot pitching in...
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