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Joliet Slammers to host first-ever ‘Big House Ballgame’ at infamous Old Joliet Prison
Unique, one-off event will take place Thursday, April 30 at 3:05 PM CST.
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My Father and The Game We Love
An Opening Day without my dad is a scenario and circumstance I have dreaded for many years; since his health issues reared their head about 18 years ago. To be here now is still somehow unfathomable.
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The Astros Must Trade Kyle Tucker
The economics of baseball are such that you can get away with knowing little to nothing about them while maintaining a valid fan card for your team of origin. But when the clock strikes midnight on a historically successful juggernaut, which is what a two-game sweep at the hands of the upstart Detroit Tigers in…
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Hagerstown returns to pro ball with Atlantic League team in 2024
The Atlantic League continues to re-populate following the exit of the Somerset Patriots and Sugar Land Skeeters to affiliated MiLB in 2021, the loss of the Wild Health Genomes out of Lexington, and the addition of teams in Staten Island, Gastonia, Charleston, Lexington (formerly the Legends), and Frederick between 2021 and 2023. Arriving in time…
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The Trade of Christy Mathewson
I’m going to wager that there aren’t many of you out there wondering about the implications of a player transaction from 122 years ago. I’ll double-down and say that some of you only have a passing knowledge of who Christy Mathewson is, or was (see: dead since 1925), and you certainly aren’t maintaining an active…
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What if the Braves had traded for Barry Bonds?
On October 14, 1992, the Pittsburgh Pirates stood one out away from eliminating the Atlanta Braves and earning a trip to the World Series. All that stood between them and their first trip to the Fall Classic since 1979 was a reserve outfielder named Francisco Cabrera, who had only ten at-bats at the Major League…
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On getting released from his team, “They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn’t allow visitors in the clubhouse.”
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