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Perhaps no better player captures the indignities of our world than the long baseball career of Shin-Soo Choo. While he is but one of hundreds of players who can claim similar or better stat lines to Derek Jeter despite nowhere near the fanfare or recognition – Edwin Encarnacion, anyone? – Choo’
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The Midwest is full of great minor league baseball and excellent ballpark experiences. Some, like Dayton and Toledo, are beacons of excellence in classy minor league team management from top to bottom. Others are a work in progress. But none I’ve attended recently left me scratching my head with
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Take me out to the ballgame…and let’s stay the night. So is the new mantra of Major League Baseball. After a period between 1991 and the mid-2010s that saw nearly every Major League team build a new stadium, the pace of ballpark construction over the last five
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Has the baseball Hall of Fame transitioned from being a museum celebrating the history of the greatest players and feats in baseball to being a museum merely celebrating the favorite players of an egotistical media? It's a leading question, I know. The failure to induct the greatest and
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When the ownership of the Cleveland Indians decided to change the team’s name a few years ago, the opportunity presented them a generational opportunity to rebrand not only the Cleveland Baseball Team but, in some ways, the entire city of Cleveland, for the next century. With the recent announcement
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His other policies aside, Donald Trump was wrong about one thing: his February 8th, 2020 tweet insisting Pete Rose should be a lock for the Hall of Fame. In 1989 Pete Rose was banned from baseball, and with his shunning lost any hope of ever being enshrined in the Baseball
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During the height of the COVID-19 quarantine, the Washington Nationals, their coaches, and a few ex-members got together to celebrate their 2019 World Championship with a rollicking Zoom call streamed live on Facebook. It gave us a glimpse inside the personalities of the notoriously personable World Champions, especially
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For months now we've been collecting responses to a poll asking fans to rank their favorite Major League ballparks. The results are in! 1. PNC Park 2. Wrigley Field 3. AT&T Park 4. Fenway Park 5. Camden Yards 6. Dodger Stadium 7. Petco Park 8. Citizens
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In 1989 Pete Rose was banned from baseball, and with his shunning lost any hope of ever being enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame, at least while alive. Mr. Rose has made it clear he would prefer enshrinement, but it is unlikely to happen soon, even posthumously. Pete Rose&
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While it's unclear exactly when baseball will expand next after Las Vegas, robust conversations in Charlotte, Portland, Nashville, Austin and Montreal have crowned those cities the heir-apparent destinations in MLB's future growth sweepstakes, the likely next on deck locations should the Marlins or Rays relocate,
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2025 note: This piece was written in real-time in May 2019, five months before the Nationals stormed back to stun the baseball world, beating the Houston Astros to win the World Series in seven games. After this piece was written, the Nationals finished the rest of 2019 with baseball&
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At 47-115, the 2018 Baltimore Orioles were widely pitied as the worst team in baseball in 2018. Like many cellar-dwellers in recent memory, their futility, once demonstrated, was accepted as a given, and opponents fawned over the opportunity to play them. For those of us who remember the