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The Season That Never Was--Kansas Citys 162 game 2020. By kcstengelSr on Jan 31, 2021, 5:34pm EST + We all remember March 12, 2020 when MLB called off spring training fourteen days before the Kansas City Royals were set to play their season opening game at the White Sox. The original hope was that opening day would only be delayed for a couple of weeks but it was not until July 24 before the Royals played their first game of the modified 60 game 2020 campaign. Asking baseball fans ...

Press secretary Jen Psaki said that the Biden Administration considered immigration part of “racial equity.” And Joe Biden himself sputtered that “equity and justice” must be “part of what we do every day.” Leftists care deeply about words. From parsing definitions of “is” to mysteriously finding distinctions with a difference between “persons of color” and “colored persons,” what words are used, and how, are of supreme importance to the Left. Apparently, using “black�...

Tag: babe ruth We have now been hearing a discussion where people are asking: Is Tom Brady the greatest player in an American Team Sport ever? Brady being in his 10th Superbowl has earned him a place in that conversation with 10 trips to the finals in 21 chances. Or to put it another way, Tom Brady’s avg of going to superbowls is higher than Ty Cobb’s avg of getting hits. Tom Brady’s avg of going to superbowls is higher than the 3 point percentage of any NBA player in history The only...

Schilling is wrong. The writers for him are wrong. The writers against him are wrong.

Colorado Rockies news and notes for Sunday, January 24, 2021

4) Jim O’Rourke: 8 5) Harry Stovey: 6 Jones had a huge year in 1879, totaling an MLB-best nine home runs to go with 85 runs scored, 62 RBIs and 29 walks in 83 games, all league bests. He would set a new career high for homers in ’83, with 10, though that came during Chester Arthur’s presidency. Hines won the Triple Crown in ’78, when he hit .358 with four home runs and 50 RBIs for the Providence Grays. He led baseball with a .357 batting average the following year, and his career high o...

The Off-season of the Living Dead continues to shamble on...

The Dodgers have at least considered free agent Marcus Semien to play third base or multiple positions. Read more at MLB Trade Rumors.

Chattanoogan Bill Akers Outshined The Babe In September Of 1930 Tuesday, January 19, 2021 - by Joseph Dycus The Major League Baseball season is the longest of any pro sport in America, and it has been this way for over 100 years. Each season has hot streaks and slumps, masterful pitching performances and demotions to the bullpen. On any given day, the unknown ballplayer can become a hero. On September 13, 1930, Detroit Tigers rookie shortstop and Chattanoogan Bill Akers didn’t just outd...

The Red Sox outfielder could be on the move.