Former Boston Red Sox players Dom DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky hit the road last week for a reunion with ailing teammate Ted Williams, recovering at his Florida home after open-heart surgery earlier this year.
Williams, regarded as perhaps the best pure hitter in baseball history, was the last player to hit over .400, when he hit .406 in 1941.
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Old Friends
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Bonds
I just heard Stuart Scott on Sportscenter talking about Barry Bonds’ season this year. He said something that just blows me away. I hadn’t - until now - really appreciated Bonds’ home run extravaganza. The 73 (SEVENTY-THREE!!!) home runs in a season is amazing, obviously. But Scott just said that Bonds hit a home run every twelve swings. Not “at-bats”. Swings. A home run every twelfth time he swung the bat. That is just incredible. I cannot believe that.
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Baseball Chips In
Major League Baseball and the Players Association donated $10 million and announced the creation of the MLB-MLBPA Disaster Relief Fund on Wednesday to aid the victims of last week’s terrorist attacks in the United States.
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Curt Schilling
Here is an awesome letter from Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Curt Schilling to the citizens of America.
link via xero79.com
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Hats
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Sewing machines at New Era Cap Co. on Friday began stitching American flags onto the caps major league baseball players will wear when they resume play next week.
That is so American I don’t even know what to do with myself. Once again, some simple little story brought tears to my eyes.
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Bosox
Trot Nixon worked the count against Texas reliever Danny Kolb, and the strategy worked in favor of the Boston Red Sox. Nixon hit a tiebreaking grand slam in the eighth inning on a 3-2 pitch from Kolb and the Red Sox beat the Rangers 7-4 Friday night.
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BoSox
BOSTON (AP) - The Boston Red Sox fired manager Jimy Williams on Thursday in the middle of a playoff race.
Boston has lost six of seven games, but still was only two games behind the Oakland Athletics in the AL wild-card standings and a season-high five games behind the New York Yankees in the AL East through Wednesday.
The Red Sox have been plagued by injuries, including to stars Pedro Martinez and Nomar Garciaparra, and the team currently has eight players on the disabled list.
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Mt. Everest
A man who successfully climbed Mount Everest last month left a Red Sox cap at the summit and burned a Yankees cap at base camp in the hopes of removing the ‘curse of the bambino’.
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The Rocket
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Fastball
There is some great comedy at Disturbing Search Requests. Someone found a video of Randy Johnson accidentally killing a dove with a fastball. The ESPN site also notes that, “on Aug. 4, 1983, Yankees outfielder Dave Winfield killed a seagull in Toronto with a warmup throw. The Ontario police charged him with animal cruelty, although the charge was later dropped.”
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Red Sox v. Yankees
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In a matchup of two of the best righthanded pitchers in the game, Mike Mussina and Pedro Martinez renew acquaintances tonight when the New York Yankees battle the Boston Red Sox for the 11th time this season. Last Thursday, Mussina (5-4, 3.44 ERA) struck out a season-high 12 batters over eight innings to outduel three-time Cy Young Award winner Martinez (6-1, 1.60) as the Yankees edged their archrivals, 2-1. Martinez already can be considered the favorite for the 2001 American League Cy Young award. He leads starters in ERA and strikeouts, while giving up just two home runs in 10 starts. |  |
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College Baseball
The Gators had been considered a bubble team heading into the tournament, but because they play in baseball’s best conference, the SEC, and finished the season with wins in 23 of their final 35 games, the Gators received the No. 2 seed in this regional … “The whole state is very good. I don’t care whether it’s Division I, Division II, Division III, junior college, there’s always outstanding teams in this state and outstanding players.”
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Boston Red Sox
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Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees Although it is still May, a large crowd and a playoff-type atmosphere should be expected Tuesday night when the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees begin a three-game series. The Yankees are returning home from a 2-4 road trip and are 1 1/2 games behind the Red Sox for the lead in the American League East. |
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Red Sox
The legend of Manny Ramirez grows by the day. On Saturday the Red Sox slugger belted what he thought was a long foul ball. But it curved over the Green Monster in Fenway Park, over the netting atop the wall, over Lansdowne Street and off the roof of a parking garage, finally coming to rest somewhere near the tracks that run next to the Mass Pike. Best guess on distance traveled: about 468 feet.
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Good Times
It’s a great time to be a Red Sox fan. The beginning of the season always seems to be, eh? Right now - if you’re a statistics junkie - you know that Manny Ramirez leads all MLB hitters with a .405 average and Pedro Martinez leads all MLB pitchers with a 1.44 ERA. First place in the AL East is a sweet feeling. How long will it last?
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