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Road to the Hall, still on the ballot

By john • Dec 13th, 2007 • Category: alan trammell, andre dawson, bert blyleven, dale murphy, dave concepcion, dave parker, don mattingly, hall of fame, harold baines, jack morris, jim rice, lee smith, mark mcgwire, rich gossage, tommy john

With less then a month until voting is complete we continue our ongoing look at the players who make up this years Hall of Fame ballot.
Harold Baines - 22 years, .289/.356/.465, 384 HR, 1628 RBI, 1299 R, 34 SB
Awards: 6 time All-Star, 1 silver slugger
Trademark: pioneer to modern DH
Below average defender becomes key DH ingredient [...]


Preston Mattingly revisted

By john • Oct 31st, 2007 • Category: don mattingly, preston mattingly

Back in June I had the pleasure to meet with Los Angeles Dodger prospect Preston Mattingly. Preston Mattingly is the son of former Yankee Don Mattingly. At the time Mattingly was ranked 10th on the Dodger’s prospect list according to Baseball-America and was considered the second best prosect on this current team, the Great Lakes [...]


The Simpsons: Homer at the Bat

By john • Oct 19th, 2007 • Category: darryl strawberry, don mattingly, jose canseco, ken griffey jr, mike scioscia, ozzie smith, roger clemens, steve sax, the simpsons, wade boggs

There have been many references to baseball during the Simpsons long run on the FOX network. The most famous though has to be the 1992 episode named ‘Homer at the bat’ an obvious reference to the iconic baseball poem ‘Casey at the bat’.
The episode also featured references to ‘Pride of the Yankees’ as the team [...]