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Wisdom and Links: Chris Colabello’s Story is Too Real For Hollywood
NOTE: Portions of this post were originally published on the Baseball Continuum on 4-22 So, there is this guy. He’s a ballplayer. Not a particularly great or notable one, but still a ballplayer. He’s...
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Wisdom and Links: Bartolomania
“Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention. Only the utterly impossible, the inexpressibly fantastic, can ever be...
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(No) Wisdom and (Just) Links
In the madness of modern life, sometimes you just don’t have time to dispense wisdom. So, instead, here are some links: Steven Goldman recalls the “Two Bad Trades of Mike Piazza” David Laurila asked...
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Wisdom and Links: Those Who Gave All
Throughout history, there have been baseball players who have been willing to put their careers aside in service of their countries. It even continues today, as Mitch Harris of the Cardinals (currently...
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Wisdom and Links: Baseball has never produced a man like Muhammad Ali
Baseball has never produced a man like Muhammad Ali. Oh, many players have captured portions of what Ali was, to be sure. Babe Ruth, for example, had the near-universal recognition, flare for the...
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Jose Canseco: A Life In Bizarre Baseball Culture
The most common player to appear in my Bizarre Baseball Culture feature is, as far as I can tell, Cal Ripken Jr. However, the person who perhaps most represents Bizarre Baseball Culture is a man who,...
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WISDOM AND LINKS: The Meaning of Baseball in the Olympics
We are right in the middle of the Olympics, and while baseball isn’t being played in Rio, it will be in Tokyo and perhaps in 2024 and beyond (it may end up depending on who wins hosting rights for...
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Wisdom and (no) Links: Late August
The last week of August is among the oddest of the season. It’s too early to truly declare that the final race to the pennant has begun, but it’s too early for many teams to declare it “done” and...
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Wisdom and Links: Curses Incorporated
I was in Chicago a week or so back, and at the Chicago Sports Museum (attached to a Harry Carey’s restaurant because of course it is) they have a curse room. It’s mainly about the Billy Goat, of...
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Wisdom and (no) Links: The Coming Yankee Dynasty
We’re all dead, we just don’t know it yet. Or, rather, most of Major League Baseball’s teams are dead, they just don’t know it yet. Because, well, the Empire is about to strike back. It won’t come this...
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