Articles tagged "baseball"

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World Series mega DVD collection is baseball heaven

by Doug Nye [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[16.Nov.09] :. More than any other professional sport, Major League Baseball has a special bond with its history. The game we watch today is the same one our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers watched....

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Baseball and the Zen of Ian McEwan

by Rodger Jacobs

[8.Sep.09] :. Ian McEwan came to mind tonight while watching the Dodgers-Padres game on TV. God knows how baseball and a British novelist intersect but such are the wanderings of the human mind. I have had a...

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Sugar

by Stephen Snart

[4.Sep.09] :. Melancholic and pragmatic, Sugar is not a rousing Saturday night sports movie, but rather an intelligent and stirring representation of real life.

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With one bat and no uniforms, Iraq’s baseball team hits field

by Laith Hammoudi [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[14.Jul.09] :. BAGHDAD — They’ve only got a five-year-old softball bat, a threadbare cap, three scuffed balls and nine second-hand gloves from a flea market. They train on a college soccer field. And...

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Whole new ballgame in digital age

by Eric Benderoff [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[28.May.08] :. During baseball season, you’ll find Jon Passman in the press box at Wrigley Field or maybe U.S. Cellular Field. In the winter, when it’s hockey and basketball season, you might see him at...

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Multimedia Review

Major League Baseball 2K8

by Jason Cook

[16.Apr.08] :. MLB 2K8 has gone the innovation route, overhauling many standards of the baseball sim, making it an interesting experiment in what baseball games can be.

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Scoring from Second by Philip F. Deaver [Editor]

by Neal Hayes

[11.Jul.07] :. Even the very best baseball players convert only three or four of every ten at bats into base hits. Perhaps Deaver can find some sort of poetic consolation in that statistic.

 

‘Pastime’ blends love, baseball and World War II internment

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[30.May.07] :. The score is tied as the runner leads off third base, the batter tenses and the pitcher gets ready to deliver. The crowd in the small-town ballpark holds its collective breath as the battle between...

 

Here’s the pitch: baseball in Israel

by Joel Greenberg [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[24.Apr.07] :. JERUSALEM - When Ken Holtzman, a former star pitcher for the Chicago Cubs and a prominent Jewish ballplayer, was offered the post of manager in a new professional baseball league to be launched this...

 

Carrying Jackie’s Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball—and America

by Steve Jacobson [Reprinted from Carrying Jackie's Torch (Lawrence Hill Books) (MCT)]

[20.Apr.07] :. No matter how great their RBI or batting average, neither Jackie Robinson nor the other black players could escape the racism, insult or injustice of the times.

 

MLB delivers solid hit with new Mosaic

by Eric Benderoff [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[18.Apr.07] :. There were moments last week, as I watched nearly a dozen baseball games at once, that I thought I was in my own little Las Vegas. All I needed was a sportsbook and a cocktail waitress, two things...

 

Yanks’ opener close to perfect on a day of many subplots

by Bob Klapisch [The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT)]

[3.Apr.07] :. NEW YORK - Mariano Rivera had just finished blistering the Devil Rays with one merciless cutter after another, striking out the side so efficiently (13 pitches) and with such overwhelming force (six...