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Then There Was One.
Duke Snider died this weekend. The Duke of Flatbush was 85 and sadly, the last two decades of his life was a parable for many a sports star: beset with money and health problems and largely forgotten by the masses that once showered him with adulation. But during his prime, he represented, along...
Today in Sports History: September 19th
(Mantle rounds third on homer run No. 535. Photo courtesy of Bettman/Corbis) Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Avast ye mateys! Today, September 19th, is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! And believe it or not, there is a sports connection. The holiday was created by two men, John...
Today in Sports History: March 18th
(Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle. Photo by Malcolm Emmons, US Presswire) 3/18/1985 - Mays, Mantle reinstatedMLB commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Hall of Fame outfielders Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, who had been banned from baseball by former commissioner Bowie Kuhn. Mays was ostracized in...
Today in Sports History: March 1st
(Mickey Mantle holding a bat. Photo courtesy of Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 3/01/1969 - Mantle hangs it upAfter 18 years with the New York Yankees, Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball. Mantle was one of the greatest sluggers the game had ever seen and in 1961, he rivaled teammate...
Today in Sports History: May 14th
(The brawl in Game 5 turned the series on its head. Photo courtesy of AP Photos) 5/14/1920 - The Train gets 300 Walter Johnson, nicknamed "The Big Train," wins the 300th game of his career. To this day, Johnson is often considered the greatest pitcher who ever lived -- he wound up with 417 wins,...
When McLain Grooved a Pitch to Mantle
With the uproar (perhaps a slight exaggeration, since the media seems more outraged over this than fans, as far as I can tell) over the allegations of Alex Rodriguez tipping pitches to opposing players so they'd tip pitches to him, Friday's New York Times looked back to the 1968 season, when Mickey...
Jim Souhan is TRYING to get our blood pressure up
Jim Souhan, of the Star Tribune, wrote a column for the baseball preview section that appeared in today's paper. Titled "Short and sweet gives way to long and bor-r-r-ing," it decrys players who go to the plate looking to walk, rather than going up there to "do something spectacular." After the...
The 'myth' of the 565 foot home run
Fifty-five years ago today, Yankee icon Mickey Mantle stepped up to the plate at Griffith Stadium (Home of the Washington Senators) and proceeded to hit the longest home run in Major League Baseball history - a meteoric blast estimated at 565 feet. Or did he? Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports takes...
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