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Fear Strikes Out: Mental Illness Turns Star Catcher Into an Axe Murderer

Posted in Baseball, Crime, Culture, MLB on January 21, 2011 | 7 Comments »

(This is the third in a series on infamous or controversial historical figures who also had a notable association with baseball. For the first installment on John Dillinger, click here, and for the second installment on Billy Sunday, click here.) Martin Bergen’s childhood dream was to play major league baseball, but soon after realizing that goal, his career and life […]

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Tragedy Touches Baseball World

Posted in Baseball, Crime, Culture, MLB, tagged on January 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The senseless violence in Tuscon, Arizon that claimed six lives and sent shockwaves throughout the nation’s political system has also exacted a painful toll on major league baseball. According to now confirmed reports, Christina-Taylor Green, the nine year-old girl killed during yesterday’s horrific tragedy, was the daughter of Dodgers’ scout John Green and granddaughter of […]

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The Evangelical Outfielder: Billy Sunday’s Rise from the National League to the National Consciousness

Posted in Baseball, Culture, MLB, Nostalgia, tagged , on December 22, 2010 | 6 Comments »

(This is the second in a series on infamous or controversial historical figures who also had a notable association with baseball. For the first installment on John Dillinger, click here, and for the third installment on Marty Bergen, click here.) Chicago, the town that Billy Sunday could not shut down” – Lyrics from “Chicago” by Fred Fisher During the early part of […]

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Winter Meetings of Infamy: Gathered in Chicago, Baseball Magnates Confronted by Talk of War, Not Trades

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Culture, Yankees, tagged , , on December 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Baseball’s winter meetings have become an annual rite of passage for the sport. In the first month or so after the World Series, the Hot Stove mostly burns on embers, but once the game’s movers and shakers convene for a week of wheeling and dealing, the calendar seems to instantly turn to the upcoming season. […]

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RIP Leslie Nielsen; Comedic Actor Was “Surely” Serious About Baseball

Posted in Baseball, Culture, MLB, Movies, tagged on November 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »

To many baseball fans, Leslie Nielsen, who died yesterday at the age of 84, is better known as “Enrico Palazzo”, the dysfunctional national anthem singer turned home plate umpire that he portrayed in a scene from The Naked Gun. Nielsen’s outrageous parody yielded one most memorable comedic depictions of the game in movie history. However, […]

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Giving Thanks, Yankee Style

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Culture, MLB, Yankee History, Yankees, tagged on November 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

From the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, Thanksgiving in Yankeeland usually meant waiting around to see if George Steinbrenner was going to make a managerial change. Like a conflicted hunter standing over the neck of his Thanksgiving Turkey with an axe, the Yankees’ owner would often take all winter to make a final decision. Perhaps the […]

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Historic Rivalry Returns to Yankee Stadium; Army, Notre Dame Wake Up Echoes of Legends Past

Posted in Culture, Nostalgia, Yankee Stadium, tagged , , on November 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

(In addition to appearing at The Captain’s Blog, this post is also being syndicated at TheYankeeU.) Three of the most significant names in American sports history collide tonight when Army and Notre Dame not only play the fiftieth game in their historic rivalry (for a summary of every game, click here), but do so at Yankee […]

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