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Royalty

Roger Schlueter | Saturday, July 5, 2025

120 years ago, a Reds center fielder named Cy Seymour emblazoned his 10th Major League season with a line so far beyond anything he’d accomplished before and anything he’d do in his final six years after this pinnacle:  a startling, awe-inspiring mountain flanked by short, rolling hills. In 1905, left-handed […]


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Clayton, the Giant(s) Slayer

Roger Schlueter | Saturday, June 21, 2025

One week ago, Dodgers southpaw Clayton Kershaw layered in another rewrite to his work-in-progress Hall of Fame plaque – one more victory to expand his difference between career wins and losses to a plus 120; five more strikeouts to creep within a dozen punchouts of an even 3,000; yet another […]


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The Sultan of Slash

Roger Schlueter | Friday, March 7, 2025

Today’s guest writer, James Potocki, spent 25 years creating content for Major League Baseball as a cinematographer, editor and producer. If you’ve been a baseball fan over that time, you might have seen some of his work – This Week in Baseball, Prime 9, The World Series Film and the […]


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Focused on .400

Roger Schlueter | Tuesday, February 11, 2025

This past season, Royals All-Star Bobby Witt, Jr. – AL batting champ, runner-up in league MVP voting, Silver Slugger, Gold Glover, producer of the second highest extra-base hit tally ever for a shortstop – also enjoyed a flirtation with hitting .400 … at home.  The dalliance fell short, leaving the […]


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