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Salon.com October 12, 1999 Vin Scully |
"29,000 people and a million butterflies" Vin Scully's radio call of the ninth inning of Sandy Koufax's 1965 perfect game against the Chicago Cubs is pure baseball literature.... |
Sports Illustrated August 14, 2002 Frank Deford |
Our troubadours Sadly, the era of "the voice of" is coming to an end. |
Salon.com July 31, 2002 King Kaufman |
30 more memorable moments Baseball's list tends toward the recent and positive, so here are some alternatives, unvarnished. |
Salon.com April 2, 2001 King Kaufman |
Where have you gone, Bill Grabarkewitz? An oral history of the Los Angeles Dodgers forgoes baseball for gossip, and leaves a hometown boy wondering where his memories fit into the picture... |
Salon.com October 7, 1999 Joan Walsh |
Talking baseball with Hank Greenwald The best broadcaster you won't hear on the air talks about umpire arrogance, the home-run chase and "the Viagra of baseball." |
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 August 9, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Padre O'Malley Pending the other owners' approval, which isn't likely to be withheld, Peter O'Malley is back in baseball. And in southern California, to boot. Only it may take a few people a little time to get used to thinking of an O'Malley owning the San Diego Padres. |
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 July 6, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
D-Train's Derailment, and Others' How strange and sad it is, now and over a lifetime of watching and loving the game, that as often as not the players who are the most fun to watch become the players whose careers derail soon enough after they get their first tastes of success. |
Sports Central November 30, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
Tommy, Meet Timmy and the Ol' Redhead Hall of Fame broadcasters have been fired for calling or reporting games and their atmospheres honestly. |
Salon.com April 25, 2001 King Kaufman |
Almost triumphant You win some, you lose some, some get rained out. No hard feelings. Except for me... |
AskMen.com August 6, 2003 Matthew Simpson |
Top 10: Legendary Sportscasters They toy with emotions, making heroes out of players and entertaining the masses. With that, here are the top 10 legendary sportscasters according to their popularity and staying power. |
Sports Central April 10, 2008 Kevin Beane |
The Sports Announcer Column (Pt. 2) A look at solid sports announcers worthy of wider praise, even if they are not worthy of the Pantheon. |
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 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 February 28, 2008 Kevin Beane |
The Sports Announcer Column (Pt. 1) If you value a voice that provides good background music to the game, here are three of the best. |
Sports Central March 13, 2014 Kevin Beane |
Thoughts on Old Announcers Being Sent to Pasture Sometimes a network feels their hand is forced as sports broadcasters get up in years and their booth performance suffers. I see two flaws with that, however. |
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 May 24, 2005 Kevin Connelly |
Take Me Out to the Brawl Game In no way shape or form is it acceptable to turn a sporting event into a sparring match ... right? Try telling that to a handful of fans at Dodger Stadium. |
Sports Central September 23, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
The Dodgers Take a Victory Swim I have a few observations concerning the Los Angeles Dodgers' pool party to celebrate clinching the National League West in Arizona. |
Sports Central October 31, 2012 Stephen Kerr |
Defending America's Pastime Now that San Francisco has swept Detroit, and this year's World Series is over, I'll watch some good pro and college football and basketball. But I'm already counting down the days until spring training starts another season. Hurry back, baseball! |
Sports Illustrated September 3, 2002 Jane Leavy |
Pitcher perfect Sandy Koufax overcame constant, seating pain to become the greatest pitcher of his time. |
Salon.com August 8, 2001 David Davis |
Marvin Miller As the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, he challenged the assumptions that players are chattel and that labor unions have no place within sports... |
Sports Central June 4, 2012 Adam Russell |
Top Five Surprises of the MLB Season With two months of the current MLB season in the books, here are five things that, while maybe they're not that uncommon, are surprising to me. |
Salon.com September 17, 2002 King Kaufman |
The Angels-A's race is a dud Thanks to baseball's boneheaded wild-card system, we once again have two great teams playing meaningless games in September. |
Sports Central October 18, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
NLCS Game 5: Fun, Fun, Fun "If you're not having fun in the playoffs," Adrian Gonzalez said after the Dodgers banked Game 5, "then you don't deserve to be here." |
Sports Central February 24, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
A One-of-a-Kind Character Witness Some think Fred Wilpon, the beleaguered New York Mets owner who stands in danger of losing part or even most of his ownership thanks to the Bernie Madoff scandal's fallout, may be in need of a character witness or two. |
Sports Illustrated November 7, 2000 Stephen Cannella |
Scorecard Call it the Larry Dierker Effect. The success of the Astros' manager, who has led Houston to three division titles since vaulting from the broadcast booth to the dugout before the 1997 season, has made it safe for talking heads to dream of trading in their headsets for skippers' caps... |
Salon.com August 22, 2001 Allen Barra |
Stop bad-mouthing baseball Sentimental sports columnists moan about its demise, even though the facts don't support their arguments... |
Sports Central July 8, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
Deep Blue: MLB at Midseason More than halfway into the baseball season, we've finally gotten to that phase where flashes in the pan have had time to fade, the true horses in baseball have had time to right themselves after stumbling out of the gate. |
Sports Central August 9, 2004 Hank Waddles |
Dodgers Aiming For Playoff Success Thanks to the new GM's guidance, Dodger fans can look forward to watching their team win games in October for the first time in 16 years. And this time, it won't take a miracle. |
Sports Central September 2, 2015 Joe Messineo |
Takeaways From the Cubs/Dodgers Series The Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers squared off in a three-game series. So what did we learn from watching these contenders go at it? |
Salon.com January 31, 2001 Joyce Millman |
Mother ship Gillian Anderson's miraculously pregnant Dana Scully has brought "The X-Files" back to its eerie and disturbing best... |
Sports Central October 12, 2005 Jeff Kallman |
Nobody Asked Me Yet, But... Some random thoughts as we wrap up this baseball season. |