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Let's Go to the Videotape: Baseball Sells!
A while ago, we took a look at Mike Piazza's forays into the world of commercials. Of course, he is not the only MLB star to lend his face to a corporate endorsement. Baseball and commerce are both as American as apple pie, and as long as we've had professional players, we've seen them in...
Comparing The Mets' And Braves' Collapse Apology E-Mails
Talking Chop posted the e-mail that Braves President John Schuerholz sent to fans following their Metsian collapse in September this season. It reminded of the e-mail the Mets sent out after Game 162 in 2007. Here is a comparison of the two messages. First up is the Mets' message, which I've dug...
Today in Sports History: August 5th
(Glavine recording win No. 300. Photo by Nam Y. Huh, Associated Press) 8/05/1999 - Big Mac serves up 500Reaching the plateau one year after setting the single-season home run record, Mark McGwire belts the 500th home run of his career off of Andy Ashby. For McGwire, it was the last milestone home...
Phillies vs Braves: April 5,7,8
This past October before the World Series, I wrote an article on the Phillies and Rays' players, and looked through their splits to introduce everyone to the detailed skills of the two teams facing each other. It was a sort of advanced scouting by statistics experiment, and people seemed to get a...
The Top 50 Mets of All Time: #36 Tom Glavine
After spending sixteen mostly-splendid seasons pitching for the Braves, a stretch that included two Cy Young awards, five top-three finishes and eight All-Star appearances, 36-year-old Tom Glavine was a free agent looking for one last big-money deal to get him to 300 wins and baseball immortality....
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