Player Biographies

Postby george barnard » Sun Sep 12, 2010 1:53 pm

[url]http://www.fanhouse.com/2010/05/03/joe-niekros-knuckler-lives-through-arm-of-12-year-old-girl/#cmtForm[/url]

Okay, it's not an obit or a bio, but it is a feel-good story that might even touch the most cynical of us.

Bill
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Postby nevdully's » Sun Sep 12, 2010 2:27 pm

:D :D :D :D
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Postby thaibill » Sun Sep 12, 2010 2:50 pm

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/217945-from-unhittable-to-homeless-the-jr-richard-story

I've seen a better version of this story but can't find it.
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Postby ADRIANGABRIEL » Sun Sep 12, 2010 5:03 pm

[url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1086339/index.htm]Tom Terrific And His Mystic Talent[/url] by Pat Jordan about Tom Seaver
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Postby ADRIANGABRIEL » Sun Sep 12, 2010 5:12 pm

[url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1089709/index.htm]That Old Gang Of Mine[/url] by Leo Durocher about the Gas House Gang--Dizzy and Paul Dean, Pepper Martin, Frankie Frisch, Rip Collins, Bill Delancey, Leo Durocher...
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Postby ADRIANGABRIEL » Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:50 pm

[url=http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/buck_oneils_baseball_journey.php]Buck O'Neil's Baseball Journey[/url] by Aaron Zamost. This is an interview with--who else--Joe Posnanski about his book [i:a40cbdd462]The Soul Of Baseball[/i:a40cbdd462], about Buck O'Neil.
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Postby ADRIANGABRIEL » Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:56 am

[url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1019567/index.htm]Laughing on the Outside[/url] by John Schulian, about Josh Gibson
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Postby ADRIANGABRIEL » Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:59 am

[url=http://web.archive.org/web/20031003190603/http:/www.esquire.com/features/articles/2003/030905_mfe_cramer_1.html]What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?[/url] by Richard Ben Cramer.
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Postby ADRIANGABRIEL » Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:01 pm

[url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_7_66/ai_n27333501/?tag=content;col1]The Legend of Bo Jackson[/url] by Joe Posnanski.
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Postby ADRIANGABRIEL » Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:07 pm

[url=http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/i-apos-d-rather-catch/5822/]I'd Rather Catch[/url] by Birdie Tebbetts.
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