Player Biographies

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[url=http://www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/talese/essays/dimaggio.html]The Silent Season of a Hero[/url] by Gay Talese, about Joe Dimaggio

[paige91]

http://joeposnanski.si.com/2010/09/30/the-heart-of-los-angeles/

My favorite quote:

Scully uses crowd noise as his orchestra. When Henry Aaron hit his 715th home run, Scully was there, and he called the home run, and then he took off his headset, walked to the back of the room, and let people listen to the crowd cheer. Like water out of a shower head. “What could I have said that would have told the story any better?” he asks. And he pauses: “You know what? I still love listening to the sound of a crowd cheering. Don’t you? Don’t you just love that sound?”

The great announcers recognize when nothing needs to be said.

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[url=http://joeposnanski.si.com/2010/10/18/the-tony-pena-story/]The Tony Pena Story[/url] by Poz

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[url=http://deadspin.com/5685456/my-uncomfortable-encounter-with-an-angry-joe-morgan?skyline=true&s=i]My Uncomfortable Encounter With An Angry Joe Morgan[/url] by Tommy Craggs

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[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/sports/baseball/30mcdougald.html]Gil McDougald, Ex-Yankee, Dies at 82[/url] by Richard Goldstein (NY Times obit)

[nymets99]

nice piece

[the splinter]

a unique player indeed. My dad and I went to several games at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium and sat above the Braves bullpen when Simmons was in his twilight with the Braves...he grew a nice garden in the pen


[url]http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1093723/index.htm[/url]

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[url=http://joeposnanski.si.com/2010/12/03/the-greatest-player-not-in-the-hall/]The Greatest Player Not In The Hall[/url] by Poz--Ron Santo tribute.

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[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/nyregion/01flatbush.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss]When Players Like Duke Snider Were Also Neighbors[/url] by Manny Fernandez

[url=http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/passing-down-a-love-for-snider/]Passing Down A Love For Snider[/url] by Howard Megdal

[url=http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/02/27/the-duke/#more-6911]The Duke[/url] by Poz

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[url=http://www.suntimes.com/sports/3774470-419/ex-sox-manager-chuck-tanner-dies.html]Ex-Sox Manager Chuck Tanner Dies[/url], AP Obit