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	<title>Baseball: Past and Present</title>
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	<description>A Historical Look at the National Pastime</description>
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		<title>A summer of softball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I quit playing Little League when I was 11. I never excelled at baseball as a child, and fifteen years after my final season, some of the things I remember most are that I struck out fairly often, I was a decent outfielder, and maybe once a season, I could hit a fluke triple. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Double the fun: Dodgers (L.A. Version) Come Home to Gotham; Hammer Hapless Mets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the latest from Joe Guzzardi, who writes &#8220;Double the fun,&#8221; looking at one famous doubleheader every Saturday.
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On Memorial Day, 1962 the transplanted  Dodgers playing in Los Angeles returned to New York for the first time  since the team left Brooklyn in 1957 to play a three game series against  the woebegone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.sportsblognet.com/2010/09/04/double-the-fun-dodgers-l-a-version-come-home-to-gotham-hammer-hapless-mets/</link>
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		<title>A starting lineup of baseball players not in the Hall of Fame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read a post on Seamheads.com that offered a lineup of ballplayers not in the Hall of Fame. It got me thinking, and I have compiled my own goon squad of non-inducted greats that I believe could run roughshod in a one-game playoff over the Seamheads 9.
To be clear, I&#8217;m not suggesting each player here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.sportsblognet.com/2010/09/03/a-starting-lineup-of-baseball-players-not-in-the-hall-of-fame/</link>
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		<title>Any player/Any era: Fritz Maisel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What he did: Here&#8217;s another interesting player I doubt many modern baseball fans have heard of. Maisel played in the big leagues from 1913 through 1918 and retired with largely unremarkable stats: a .242 lifetime batting average, 510 hits, and a career slugging percentage of .299. Supposedly, the New York Yankees turned down a chance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.sportsblognet.com/2010/09/02/any-playerany-era-fritz-maisel/</link>
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		<title>1959 “Go Go” Sox Score Eleven Runs In One Inning On One Measly Single! Believe It!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the latest from Wednesday and Saturday contributor Joe Guzzardi.
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You may not believe it (I know I didn’t) but on April 22, 1959, the Chicago White Sox on its way to a 20-6 triumph scored 11 runs on one hit against the Kansas City Athletics at the old Municipal Stadium.   A sparse crowd [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does he belong in the Hall of Fame? Pete Browning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Claim to fame: Browning was one of the first great stars of the game with his career that spanned 1882 to 1894. Among his numerous accomplishments, Browning won three batting titles, hit .402 in 1887, and finished with a career batting average of .341. That lifetime clip is 13th best all-time, and his career OPS+ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.sportsblognet.com/2010/08/31/does-he-belong-in-the-hall-of-fame-pete-browning/</link>
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		<title>Remembering a good brawl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bob Usher is 85 and hasn&#8217;t played professional baseball in more than 50 years, but he hasn&#8217;t forgotten an infamous moment in Pacific Coast League history. On August 2, 1953, while with the Los Angeles Angels, Usher participated in a legendary brawl.
I met Usher at the 16th annual Pacific Coast League reunion, held Saturday in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.sportsblognet.com/2010/08/30/remembering-a-good-brawl/</link>
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		<title>Double the fun: King Carl Hubbell Leads New York Giants to 1933 World Series Triumph</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the latest from Joe Guzzardi, a regular Wednesday and Saturday contributor. Every Saturday, Joe writes &#8220;Double the fun,&#8221; looking at one memorable doubleheader each week. Today, Joe recounts a few famous performances from Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell.
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Venue: The Polo Grounds
Date: Sunday, July 2, 1933
Teams: St. Louis Cardinals versus New York Giants
Starting Pitchers: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.sportsblognet.com/2010/08/28/double-the-fun-king-carl-hubbell-leads-new-york-giants-to-1933-world-series-triumph/</link>
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		<title>How the Hall of Fame could honor players who also managed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many paths in baseball to the Hall of Fame. A man can be enshrined as a player, a manager, or an owner, among other things. Interestingly, though, candidates who both played and managed don&#8217;t have these achievements judged together. Were rules different, a few more men might have plaques.
Currently, a backlog exists of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.sportsblognet.com/2010/08/27/how-the-hall-of-fame-could-honor-players-who-also-managed/</link>
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		<title>Any player/Any era: Harmon Killebrew</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What he did: Killebrew won six American League home run titles in an eleven-year stretch, on his way to smacking 573 lifetime bombs. He&#8217;s been supplanted on the career leader board in recent years by a variety of suspected and admitted steroid users, though Killebrew still at least rates as perhaps the greatest American League [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.sportsblognet.com/2010/08/26/any-playerany-era-harmon-killebrew/</link>
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