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Sports Central July 1, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Mad Max, Chasing Face? This season, winning 12 without a loss at this writing, Max Scherzer's more than a feel-good story, he's almost the story for the otherwise Al Central-leading Tigers. |
Sports Central January 2, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
Remembering Baseball Legends Lost A tribute to baseball legends who died in 2005. |
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 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 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 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 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 February 9, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
Fleeting Glories Here are how some other postseason MVPs have fared since they came up biggest when their teams needed them the most. |
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 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 December 24, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
2012: Mime and Reason A look back at some of the odd occurrences during the 2012 baseball season, and players that passed away this year. |
Sports Central November 7, 2005 Jeff Kallman |
Credible Evidence and a Fresh Beer A post season analysis of major league baseball. |
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 May 28, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
So, What's in a Retired Number? Haven't the Yankees retired way too many numbers? |
Sports Central October 21, 2003 M. Edward Guest |
The Importance of Game Sevens My generation has been schooled on just how important a home game is in the finale of a World Series, but that was not always the case. |
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 January 12, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
Remembering Baseball Legends Lost (Pt. 2) Part two of a tribute to baseball legends who died in 2005. |
Salon.com October 9, 2001 King Kaufman |
Playoff predictions Our writer bravely looks at the baseball games ahead and calls 'em as he sees 'em (while crossing his fingers)... |
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. |
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... |
Sports Central September 29, 2005 Jeff Kallman |
Remembering a Legend: Casey Stengel The youth of today's America could learn a few things from the legendary baseball manager -- the man Richie Ashburn called "the happiest man I've ever seen." |
AskMen.com Paul Bessire |
Top 10: World Series Teams As the 2007 MLB season comes to an end, WhatIfSports.com ranks all 102 previous World Seres winners to find the true top 10 greatest World Series teams in the history of baseball. |
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. |
Sports Central July 31, 2007 Jeff Kallman |
Bill Robinson, RIP: The Fire Down Below A look at the baseball career of Bill Robinson. |
Sports Central December 2, 2008 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Invests in First Indian-Born Players The Pirates have the sole distinction of signing two non-drafted free agents from India. |
Sports Central September 22, 2008 Jeff Kallman |
"Fort Apache, Yankee Stadium" All this season's eulogizing the big ball orchard in the Bronx has been gushy, mushy, sentimental, and mostly on the mark. |
Salon.com March 31, 2001 King Kaufman |
Nine predictions and nine observations The Yankees won't do it again, the A's will go far. And stop calling them "ballparks"! |
Sports Central June 10, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Brien's Song Brien Taylor's may be only the saddest of stories involving baseball's number-one draft picks. Here are some others who didn't flower fully for assorted reasons |
Sports Central January 6, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
From Cy-VP to Sayonara? Some speculation commences that precedent argues against Justin Verlander, the American League's Cy Young Award winner and Most Valuable Player Award winner for 2011, facing other than sobering after-effects. |
Sports Central May 28, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
From Players to Owners: Now Gwynn Wants a Shot Nolan Ryan may have started something. His fellow Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn seems to have a hankering to become a baseball owner. |
Sports Central July 8, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
SC's All-Time MLB Draft (Pt. 2) Sports columnists choose an all time MLB team. |
Sports Central July 3, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
The Bright, Elusive Butterflies of Cy They don't just speak of R.A. Dickey as the likely or most obvious candidate to start this year's All-Star Game; they're talking about his possibilities for bagging the Cy Young Award. |
Sports Central August 8, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
In Arizona, If You Can't Beat `Em, Drill `Em As of this writing I'm still waiting for baseball government to hand down discipline over last weekend's nonsense between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Pittsburgh Pirates. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Top 20: Baseball Players Of All Time This season, Barry Bonds continues his assault on the Major League Baseball record books, closing in on the career home run title. He's easily one of the best players the game has ever seen. |
Sports Central March 30, 2004 Eric Poole |
Comeback Kids (Or Maybe Not?) With only a short break last fall for the playoffs and World Series, talk about baseball for almost a year has been about everything but the game itself. |
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 December 1, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
A Baseball Negotiation, My Foot Derek Jeter may have won a 2010 Gold Glove that he doesn't really deserve. But neither does he deserve the apparent negotiating strategy of the New York Yankees, for whom he has been the franchise. |
Sports Central October 8, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Goodbye, Atlanta Braves, Yet Again The Braves, who managed to shake off a few hiccups and a few dubious deals to post the National League's best regular season record, deserved better than regular season managing in a win-or-be-gone game. |
Sports Central August 29, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
One Milestone Achieved Without Tragedy or Scandal That was no ordinary heave of admiring relief on August 21 when Ichiro Suzuki swatted his way into a club whose membership now numbers six. |
Sports Central July 10, 2009 Diane M. Grassi |
SC's All-Time MLB Draft (Pt. 4) It is the age-old argument that will never go away amongst baseball aficionados. And that is the comparison of individual players from different eras in which they played. |
Sports Central June 10, 2004 Eric Poole |
The Best Team in Baseball? The team that might be the best in baseball exists not in real life, but in the land of "couldabeen," as in: "The Pirates 'couldabeen' a great team this year if they 'coulda' kept some players." |
Sports Central July 22, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Erik Bedard, Knowing His Limits Erik Bedard just might be a pitcher who's smart enough and experienced enough to know his limits, even if he did learn them by attrition. It doesn't -- shouldn't -- make him seem any less a competitor. |
Sports Central September 28, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
The Mariano, Once More Around the Park "I wish more people could talk to Mariano Rivera," Philadelphia pitcher Roy Halladay has said, "because he's probably one of the best things to ever happen to baseball." |
Salon.com June 24, 2002 King Kaufman |
Death and life at the ballpark After the stunning loss of Darryl Kile, the Cardinals played again, and lost. That's life. And that's baseball. |
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 Illustrated September 6, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Making a case for Pedro Martinez With 16 wins, Pedro Martinez has a shot at winning 20. What does he have to do to win the Cy Young award? I thought he was already the clear frontrunner, but the mailbag brought some disagreement. |
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 Illustrated June 20, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Balancing act Lineups thrive with versatility more than power... |
Salon.com November 2, 2001 King Kaufman |
What next? With the World Series headed back to Phoenix for the finale, the Yankees have taught us to expect the extraordinary... |
Sports Illustrated August 30, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Expos' Vazquez shines in anonymity The best pitcher you may never have heard of -- and the hottest pitcher in baseball right now -- is the Expos' Javier Vazquez... |