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Ex-major leaguer Enzo Hernandez dies in Venezuela
El Tigre :: Venezuela | 4 months ago
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Former major leaguer Enzo Hernandez has died in an apparent suicide. The 63-year-old played for the San Diego Padres between 1971-77 and finished his big league career with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1978. He was found dead in his home in El Tigre in
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Ex-Major Leaguer Damon arrives for World Baseball Classic
Taichung :: Taiwan | 6 months ago
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Damon whose mother is Thai, making him eligible to play for that country has been training with Thailand's national squad since last week. The team is scheduled to play against Taiwan, the Philippines and New Zealand at the WBC qualifiers to be held
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Column: 'It felt like my head had exploded'
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 9 months ago
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Over the 150 or so years baseball has been played in America, nearly 18,000 players have appeared in at least one major league game...A campaign called "One At Bat" offers you the chance to do something about it. Adam Greenberg was 24 and had been
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Dickey Ks 13 in latest 1-hitter, Mets beat O's 5-0
New York :: NY :: USA | 11 months ago
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The Mets said the last to do it in the National League was Jim Tobin with the Boston Braves in 1944, according to research by the Elias Sports Bureau. The 37-year-old Dickey (11-1) walked two and became the first 11-game winner
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Hometown Report: Getting drafted 'so special,' ex-major leaguer James recalls
Tōkyō :: Japan | 12 months ago
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Teams scouted James during Metro League games but made no visits to his home before the draft, which is common today. "It's so different now, because I had no idea where I'd get drafted, how it worked, what it really meant," James recalled this week.
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Puerto Rico Traces Decline in Prospects to Inclusion in the Baseball Draft
San Juan :: Puerto Rico | over 1 year ago
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Dennis Rivera for The New York Times More than 250 high school students attend the Puerto Rico Baseball Academy and High School in Gurabo where days are split between classes and practice...Four years after being forced to cancel an entire season,
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A special Sierra Trout Opener for ex-Major Leaguer Sweeney
Bishop :: CA :: USA | 2 years ago
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Ed Zieralski Former Major Leaguer Mike Sweeney nets his son, Michael's trout at the Conway Ranch on the eve of their first-ever Eastern Sierra Trout Opener together. Calif. For 25 years, Mike Sweeney was one of the Boys of Summer, a dedicated
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Leake has strong outing in 3-2 loss to Reds
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | 2 years ago
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The Cincinnati Reds didn't give him much support. Rickie Weeks, Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder all hit solo homers Tuesday night and the Brewers beat the Reds 3-2 for the first time this season. "We didn't
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Another chapter for enigmatic 'Black Jack'
Encinitas :: CA :: USA | 2 years ago
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Eduardo Contreras / U-T Jack McDowell (left) won 22 games with a 3.37 ERA in 1993, earning the AL Cy Young Award. It would make sense that high school baseball players who have a former major leaguer as their head coach would be peppering him with
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Brooklyn Dodger and oldest living major leaguer Tony Malinosky, 101, dies
Oxnard :: CA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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52 pm Tony Malinosky, 101, a former Brooklyn Dodger infielder who was baseball's oldest living major leaguer, died Tuesday in Oxnard, the Dodgers announced. Malinosky played 35 games for the Dodgers in 1937, batting .228, before a knee injury in July
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