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A baseball writer looks back on 20 World Series | www.myajc.com – MyAJC

Monday, October 31, 2016

The first time I went to a World Series game, in 1983, I woke up in a state of panic. I was 8 years old. Whenever I wore my lucky Phillies hat to Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, the home team won. I could not find it anywhere.   But we had to get going. This was an afternoon start in the brilliant October sunshine, the last World Series day game…

County Revises Bluemont Baseball Field Plan in Attempt at Compromise – ARL now

Monday, October 31, 2016

Baseball boosters want a fenced-in field. Neighborhood activists don’t want a fence at all. What’s Arlington County to do to quell the controversy? Remove a portion of the fence. That’s the new plan for a soon-to-be-renovated baseball field in Bluemont Park, as laid out in a county staff presentation. The plan calls for 162 linear feet of fence to be removed along the first and third baselines. The fence will remain…

Baseball|Cubs Aren’t History as Chicago Denies Indians a Title in Game 5 – New York Times

Monday, October 31, 2016

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Where Are Baseball’s Minority Managers? – New York Times

Monday, October 31, 2016

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Can Cubs in World Series revive interest in a Chicago baseball museum? – Chicago Tribune

Monday, October 31, 2016

Like a certain Chicago professional baseball club, Dr. David Fletcher’s team has come close to realizing its dream a few times, only to have those hopes crash. Maybe the latest turn in his odyssey is an encouraging omen. For more than a decade, Fletcher’s dream has been to build the Chicago Baseball Museum, a gleaming 20,000-square-foot structure that would include a “Mt. Rushmore-like pantheon” of Chicago baseball figures, on-field virtual…

A Narrow Path of Hope Remains for the Cubs – New York Times

Sunday, October 30, 2016

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Indians Defeat Sloppy Cubs to Take a 3-1 World Series Lead – New York Times

Sunday, October 30, 2016

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Miami baseball star Fernandez was drunk, had cocaine in system at fatal cr… – Reuters

Sunday, October 30, 2016

Miami Marlins star Jose Fernandez, a dominant pro baseball pitcher and hero in Miami’s Cuban community, was legally drunk and had cocaine in his system when he was killed in a boat crash in late September, an autopsy and toxicology report released on Saturday found. The toxicology report showed Fernandez had a blood-alcohol content level of 0.147, nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08 for driving in Florida, and also…

New Trend in Baseball: Custom Cleats for the Polished Player – New York Times

Saturday, October 29, 2016

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Where Are Baseball’s Minority Managers? – New York Times

Saturday, October 29, 2016

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Baseball’s Biggest Games Are Taking Forever – FiveThirtyEight

Saturday, October 29, 2016

October brings falling leaves, great postseason pitching and hitting, and painfully long baseball games. Look no further than Game 2 of the World Series: On the game’s biggest national stage, the Cubs and Indians played a 5-1 game Wednesday night that took four hours and four minutes to complete. Interminable games like Wednesday’s contest are the norm for the MLB postseason — but even by that standard, this year has…

For Cubs fan, return to Series about family as much as baseball – New York Daily News

Saturday, October 29, 2016

CHICAGO — At 81 years old, Jim Smith has pretty much seen it all, including the last Cubs’ World Series — in 1945 from a seat in the right-field lower grandstand at Wrigley Field. Yet he is not the stereotypical Chicagoan, waiting for sky to fall now that a first championship since 1908 is tantalizingly close to reality. Actually, Smith sounds downright matter-of-fact as he speaks about being…

Baseball|Where Are Baseball’s Minority Managers? – New York Times

Saturday, October 29, 2016

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Baseball’s Biggest Games Are Taking Forever – FiveThirtyEight

Saturday, October 29, 2016

October brings falling leaves, great postseason pitching and hitting, and painfully long baseball games. Look no further than Game 2 of the World Series: On the game’s biggest national stage, the Cubs and Indians played a 5-1 game Wednesday night that took four hours and four minutes to complete. Interminable games like Wednesday’s contest are the norm for the MLB postseason — but even by that standard, this year has…

Baseball’s Biggest Games Are Taking Forever – FiveThirtyEight

Friday, October 28, 2016

October brings falling leaves, great postseason pitching and hitting, and painfully long baseball games. Look no further than Game 2 of the World Series: On the game’s biggest national stage, the Cubs and Indians played a 5-1 game Wednesday night that took four hours and four minutes to complete. Interminable games like Wednesday’s contest are the norm for the MLB postseason — but even by that standard, this year has…

Baseball|Where Are Baseball’s Minority Managers? – New York Times

Friday, October 28, 2016

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From 2010: Cleveland baseball-loving nun – CBS News

Friday, October 28, 2016

October 28, 2016, 11:11 AM| In the past the Cleveland Indians have been lifted into the World Series, no doubt, thanks to the cookies baked for them by Sister Mary Assumpta and the Sisters of the Holy Spirit in Garfield Heights, Ohio. Bill Geist met Sister Assumpta, an ardent baseball fan, as she attended her beloved Indians’ Opening Day game, armed with cookies and prayers for a win. Originally aired…

Trey Griffey and more college football players with baseball dads – NCAA.com

Friday, October 28, 2016

Ken Griffey Jr. has a different game to watch during the World Series. The newly inducted member of the Baseball Hall of Fame can certainly be forgiven for having his attention elsewhere Saturday night. His son is a starting receiver for the Arizona Wildcats. NCAA FOOTBALL ON SOCIAL MEDIA JOIN THE TEAM. Follow @NCAAFootball Junior’s son Trey isn’t the only Pac-12…

How Andrew Miller became the most important reliever in baseball – ESPN

Friday, October 28, 2016

9:30 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment In the seventh inning of Game 1 of the World Series, Indians reliever Andrew Miller found himself in a pot of boiling water. Entrusted to hold a 3-0 lead over the Cubs after starter Corey Kluber gave up a leadoff single, Miller walked the next batter, Kyle Schwarber, and then gave up a single to Javier Baez to load the bases…