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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>Any Player/Any Era: Tony Phillips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What he did: Tony Phillips had a long and relatively accomplished career (48.2 WAR in 18 seasons), yet doesn’t seem to be mentioned at all anymore. It seems Phillips was completely overshadowed by teammates (Jose Canseco, Cecil Fielder, Lou Whitaker, Alan Trammell, Travis Fryman, Jim Edmonds, Tim Salmon, Frank Thomas, Robin Ventura, etc.) However, Phillips deserved more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/09/playerany-era-tony-phillips/</link>
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		<title>“Bullet Bob,” Billionaire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I most miss about baseball’s Golden Era is the blockbuster off season trade. Today when and if trades are made, they usually involve a marginal player swapped for an obscure minor leaguer. Fans have no particular attachment to the marginal guy and no clue about the minor leaguer. We’re robbed of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/08/%e2%80%9cbullet-bob%e2%80%9d-billionaire/</link>
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		<title>Does he belong in the Hall of Fame? Craig Biggio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Claim to fame: This fall, the Hall of Fame will get its deepest and most troubled class of eligible players in recent memory, with Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Sammy Sosa among others new to the writers ballot. With the Baseball Writers Association of America continuing to argue amongst itself over enshrining players who were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/07/belong-hall-fame-craig-biggio/</link>
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		<title>First is sometimes worst with the baseball draft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s note: Please welcome the latest from Alex Putterman. ___________________ Rick Monday was a solid Major League Baseball player, accumulating 32.7 lifetime WAR, about half of which while playing for the Athletics franchise that in 1965 made him the first pick in the history of the Major League Baseball amateur draft. While Monday will never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/06/worst-baseball-draft/</link>
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		<title>Faster Than the Speed of Light: James Thomas “Cool Papa” Bell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In honor of black history month, I thought I might turn my attention to a legendary Negro League star each Sunday in February and try and shed some light on some of their legendary skills and accomplishments. While many statistics from the Negro League are impossible to verify absolutely and several stories seem to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/05/faster-speed-light-james-thomas-%e2%80%9ccool-papa%e2%80%9d-bell/</link>
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		<title>Dick Stuart Helps Pirates Win 1960 World Series&#8212;By Sitting on the Bench</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On SABR Day last week at the Forbes Field Chapter, our guest speaker was Dick Groat, Pirates’ shortstop on the 1960 World Champion’s captain and National League&#8217;s Most Valuable Player. Groat told a captive audience about his All-American Duke University basketball career and his days in the NBA with the Ft. Wayne (now Detroit) Pistons. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/04/dick-stuart-helps-pirates-win-1960-world-series-by-sitting-bench/</link>
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		<title>Any player/Any era: Josh Gibson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What he did: Twitter lit up Thursday evening with news Josh Hamilton slipped again in his sobriety. Hamilton, who overcame monumental drug issues in the minors and relapsed before in 2009, at least has time to regroup before the season starts. Josh Gibson never got that opportunity, the end of his life a storm of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/02/playerany-era-josh-gibson/</link>
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		<title>Retelling the Monty Stratton Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before there was Plaxico Burress, there was Monty Franklin Pierce Stratton (man, people knew how to name their kids back in the day! See: Tenace, Fury Gene). Once upon a time, Stratton was, seemingly, a young promising pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. An All-star, Stratton compiled a 36-23 record by the time he was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/02/retelling-monty-stratton-story/</link>
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		<title>Dick Stuart and the Managers He Frustrated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Dick Stuart hit 66 home runs and drove in 171 runs for Lincoln Chiefs in the “A” Western League in 1956, he began to add the digits “66” to every autograph. But by the time Stuart was promoted to the Hollywood Stars in 1957, he always signed with a five-point star above his name. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/01/dick-stuart-managers-frustrated/</link>
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		<title>Hack Wilson: A Forgotten Star Who Burned Brightly and All Too Briefly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s note: &#8220;Does he belong in the Hall of Fame?&#8221; will return next week. For now, please enjoy this piece from Doug Bird. __________________ Hack Wilson came from the Pennsylvania steel country and left school after the sixth grade.  He worked throughout his childhood and developed his enormous upper body strength swinging heavy hammers at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/01/31/hack-wilson-forgotten-star-burned-brightly-briefly/</link>
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