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Recollections

The Boys of Winter

Tim Ott | Tuesday, February 4, 2025

There’s a wonderful old commercial for Starting Lineup sports figures that features an unseen singer waxing about his childhood dream of becoming a big league baseball player, ending with the line, “And summer would go on forever.”   Coincidentally, around that time summer did linger past its usual expiration date – […]


Connections

Puff

Roger Schlueter | Wednesday, December 11, 2024

In the early efforts to build and grow a roster of baseball’s immortals, third basemen were notably absent from the Hall of Fame select.  It took almost a decade to promote a hot corner magician into the hallowed ranks, a filter that in 1945 finally summoned 19th/20th century third sacker […]


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