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History Kicks Ass: Dick Pole

October 5, 2009 – 12:20 pm

Welcome to another installment of History Kicks Ass.  For those of you who missed our previous installments, we covered baseball legends Rusty Kuntz and Urban Shocker.  Well today we honor a modern day baseball legend, Dick Pole.
Look at the way he stares off into the distance.  It’s as if he’s saying, “Yes, both my first [...]

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Baseball Violence Rears its Ugly Head (UPDATED)

August 16, 2009 – 8:36 am

For those of you who missed it, I wrote a piece a few weeks ago detailing why baseball is definitely a contact sport.  Well my point then still stands that, although baseball is violent less often than in other sports, its level of violence is often spectacular and has major consequences.  Well, the baseball gods [...]

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New Shea

July 14, 2009 – 9:46 am

So on Saturday I went to a Mets game with my buddy Dave.  It was my first trip to the new stadium and the first time I would get to see Johan Santana on the mound.  It was quite a day, and left a big impression on me, so i thought I’d share my experience [...]

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