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Sports Central
February 21, 2006
Jeff Kallman |
Let's All Drink to the Depth of a Clown Warren Spahn enunciated best the dilemma that plagues our memory of Casey Stengel even three decades after his death left baseball bereft for its most singular mind and personality.   |
Sports Central
February 21, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The Not-So-Great Yankee Double Switch One day after the 1964 World Series ended with the St. Louis Cardinals defeating the New York Yankees, both Series managers were out, and one of them went to work for the team he'd just opposed. |
Sports Central
March 22, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Great Players Becoming Great Managers At this writing, Don Mattingly could become a genuinely great manager in time or the next Mel Ott, a genuinely great player who went genuinely into the tank as a manager. Robin Ventura could go either way, too. |
Sports Central
January 2, 2006
Jeff Kallman |
Remembering Baseball Legends Lost A tribute to baseball legends who died in 2005. |
Sports Central
January 5, 2004
Jeff Kallman |
2003: Never a Dull Moment "We try every way we can do to kill this game," Sparky Anderson once said of baseball, "but for some reason, nothing nobody does never hurts it." That was then, this is now. Nothing nobody does never hurts it still, but lots of people do continue to embarrass it. |
Sports Central
April 20, 2004
Jeff Kallman |
O Coogan's Bluff By the time I was of age and awareness enough to know and imbibe the spirit of the game properly enough, the Giants had departed on the coattails of the Brooklyn Dodgers. |
Sports Central
November 5, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
La Russa, Out on Top Tony La Russa decided to retire when he was at the absolute top of his game, two days after he finished shepherding the St. Louis Cardinals to the unlikeliest World Series triumph of ... maybe ever. |
Sports Central
December 31, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
2011: Dickens Flummoxed Baseball's 2011 season was the best of times and it was the worst of times. |
Sports Central
May 4, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
The Letter of the Law, Written and Otherwise Baseball, for all its controversies and crises, remains as invigorating a game in discourse as it is in play. |
Sports Central
January 3, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2013: Unrealities Baseball's 2013 included a few hallucinations and several surrealities. Some might have wished some of the hallucinations were real even as others might have wished some of what was real was merely a hallucination. |
Sports Central
December 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
Sports Central
September 30, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
George Shuba, RIP: Making History Serenely Shuba died as the last man standing who'd played on both the 1946 Royals and the 1955 Dodgers. He also kept only one visible baseball memento in his home, a framed copy of his home plate handshake with Jackie Robinson. |
Sports Central
August 30, 2006
Will Tidey |
Just a Perfect Day In 1956, Don Larsen pitched a no-hit, no-run, no-man-reach-first game in a World Series. |
Sports Central
December 7, 2004
Jeff Kallman |
Baseball's Oldest Profession, Revisited Anyone who thinks cheating in baseball began in earnest with the Fabulous BALCO Boys is in dire need of a history lesson. Class is now in session. |
Sports Central
December 31, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2014: The Year in Review Baseball did a lot of blinking during 2014. Not to mention winking, nodding, prodding, clodding, and thrilling. |
Sports Central
June 21, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Boys Will Be Boys Roger Clemens gets off the hook on a perjury rap because either the House Committee for the Sending of Swell Messages to Kids, the actual prosecution, or the original Mitchell Report bungled its way across the sticky wickets of actual or alleged performance-enhancing substances. |
Sports Central
January 12, 2006
Jeff Kallman |
Remembering Baseball Legends Lost (Pt. 2) Part two of a tribute to baseball legends who died in 2005. |
AskMen.com
Pete Flies |
Top 10: Classic Baseball Plays Here are 10 classic baseball plays that will remind us why baseball in October is great. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2003
Jim Kaat |
The Mechanics Of Baseball Baseball has evolved in favor of the hitter. Here are nine factors that have changed the game. |
Sports Central
April 9, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Joe West Has Game, Unfortunately God knows (as does His servant Casey Stengel) that I had better things to write about on the day after Opening Days. |
Sports Central
August 13, 2004
Jeff Kallman |
Bob Murphy, RIP: The Unhappiest Happy Recap The very first regular season words any Mets fan heard on his or her radio, in April 1962, came from his distinctive harmonic of Oklahoma drawl and Missouri honey. |
Sports Central
March 25, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
The Deacon's Due Nicknamed the Deacon because of his devout faith, Vernon Law managed to negotiate a baseball life without falling into the traps to which professional athletes are too often prey. |
Sports Central
October 17, 2007
Jeff Kallman |
Famous Last Words Arizona Diamondbacks' outfielder Eric Byrnes joins a distinguished lineup of men who found themselves having to eat words, if not dirt, when the final results were tabulated. |
Sports Central
November 18, 2006
Greg Wyshynski |
I Don't Know Jack Would Mets fans still have no problem with the Jackie Robinson Rotunda if he had been a Yankee? |
Sports Central
January 6, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Jerry Coleman, RIP It was how Coleman spoke of live baseball from the Padres' broadcast booth that endeared him to Padres and other fans and, finally, enshrined him in the Hall of Fame in 2005 as a Frick Award winner. |
Sports Central
May 1, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Baseball's Defiant April? The Cardinals have the National League Central rather secure for now, three games ahead of the .500-clinging Cincinnati Reds. And the Angels have the American League West's basement rather secure for now, themselves, nine and a half games out of first place. |
Sports Central
October 22, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: No Cubs Curses, Too Much Mets Time alone will determine whether the Mets and the Cubs develop a history between them comparable to that between the Yankees and the Red Sox for so many decades. |
Sports Central
October 25, 2005
Jeff Kallman |
Random World Series Observations Comparing Brad Lidge to Byung-Hyun Kim is unfair... There's no further reason to insist that baseball requires a salary cap for competitive balance... Larry Bowa as Yankees' third base coach the first step to becoming manager?... etc. |
Sports Central
September 17, 2007
Joe Boesch |
Baseball Heals All Americans embrace baseball because it symbolizes peace and tranquility. |
Sports Central
September 12, 2011
Bill Hazell |
Ten Years Ago September 11th was the day that so many things changed, including our sports landscape. And yet still, some things never change. |
Salon.com
October 21, 2000
Allen Barra |
The traffic jam Series Thanks to a bloated playoff format and declining TV viewership, this year's World Series doesn't have quite the resonance of those from the "Golden Age"... |
Sports Central
October 11, 2004
Jonathan Moncrief |
Mets Fans Deserve Better When the New York Mets fired manager Art Howe last month, many fans just shrugged their shoulders. The hiring of a new general manager, and the subsequent hiring of a new field manager won't make much difference. |
Salon.com
November 1, 2002
Allen Barra |
Why nobody watched the World Series Blame it on late games and regionalism -- not the great baseball. And has anybody checked the NBA ratings lately? |
Sports Central
October 30, 2015
Louie Centanni |
Why the Royals Wanted the Mets, And Why It's Working Two games into the 2015 World Series, a lot of fans are scratching their heads asking the same question: "Are the Royals really this much better than the Mets?" |
Salon.com
October 23, 2000
Eric Bogosian |
Strung out on pinstripes Two days into New York's baseball orgy, the city is cranked up and wild-eyed, but the gunslingers of the Yankees and Mets have only just begun to stare each other down... |
Sports Central
September 14, 2015
Joe Messineo |
Running on Empty Here are the baseball players who will be resting more often to try to preserve what they have left in the tank. |
Salon.com
October 27, 2000
Allen St. John |
Champions again, thank you very much Hype about a blood feud aside, the Mets prove to be delightful hosts as the Yankees storm to another title... |
Salon.com
October 5, 2000
Brian Sulkis |
Mets robbed by wrong coast team! ESPN brings you the latest baseball scandal. But at least they're finally talking about the Giants... |
Sports Illustrated
March 29, 2000
Kostya Kennedy |
What better way to start the day? Mets lose to Chicago. |
Sports Central
July 8, 2006
Bob Ekstrom |
One Amazin' Debacle The Mets were once the clipper ship of baseball, but a demoralizing 4-8 run against the American League East has left them adrift in the horse latitudes stripped of their wind. |
Sports Central
July 2, 2012
Adam Russell |
Five Predictions By the Late Casey Stengel "There are five things that will happen by the end of this baseball season, and for some odd reason I've been sent to tell you what they are." |
Sports Central
July 3, 2013
Adam Russell |
Five Predictions For MLB's Second Half Without delay, here are my five predictions for the second half of the 2013 Major League Baseball season. |
Sports Illustrated
August 14, 2001
Daniel G. Habib & Mark Bechtel |
Two for History Are the Devil Rays the worst team ever? Are the Mariners the best team ever? |
Sports Illustrated
October 24, 2000
Rick Reilly |
The Out-of-Towner Folks in the rest of the country see this World Series as the government versus Microsoft. They don't care who wins as long as a whole lot of New Yorkers suffer. But having studied the Mets' and the Yankees' fans, it seems to me there are some basic differences... |
