Los Angeles Times – Oct 17, 2007 – Larry Stewart – You can’t blame the good folks of Colorado for being on a Rocky Mountain high. Their baseball team is going to the World Series. “The Boys of Rocktober have climbed the loftiest summit in baseball,” wrote Woody Paige in the Denver Post.… Read the rest
Sun Sentinel – Apr 3, 2005 – Mike Berardino – Watching the Boston Red Sox end the Curse of the Bambino last October, Ryne Sandberg couldn’t help but smile. You know Sandberg as the former Chicago Cubs second baseman, maybe the greatest ever to play the position.… Read the rest
New Jersey Star Ledger – Aug 30, 2006 – Greg Saitz – Alex Rodriguez, meet Otto Crombet. Rodriguez plays baseball for the New York Yankees, pulls down about $22 million a year and is getting lots of grief lately because he hasn’t been able to hit a little round ball.… Read the rest
Baltimore Sun – Aug 31, 2008 – Childs Walker, Jeff Barker and Jeff Zrebiec – Orioles and fans, once full of hope, likely find themselves mired again in a losing campaign. Just 10 days ago, it felt pretty good – for the first time in a long time – to be an Orioles fan or player.… Read the rest
Newsday – May 10, 2007 – John Jeansonne – Highly successful pro athletes find it difficult to give up the adulation, remuneration and excitement of sports With Roger Clemens’ annual spring return from the baseball afterlife, like Persephone in Greek mythology, and with Mariano Rivera’s recent pitching infirmities, age-old questions arise: When is it time to retire?… Read the rest
NBC Sports – August 8, 2007 – Outside of San Francisco, where Barry Bonds enjoyed the home-field advantage of unconditional love, his pursuit and capture of one of sports’ most hallowed records was a mostly joyless affair. The long ascent to No.… Read the rest
The Kansas City Star – Jul 14, 2007 – Randy Covitz – “It gives them a connection they had with the game that perhaps they don’t feel anymore. Author Pete Williams Steve Bergman ushered in a delegation of about 50 people into CommunityAmerica Ballpark on Saturday night, including his son’s team of 10-year-olds.… Read the rest
LA Daily News – Jill Painter – Feb 4, 2009 – Manny Ramirez scoffed at $25 million. He needed only one day to reject the latest offer from the Dodgers, aone-year deal in which Ramirez would become the second-highest paid player in baseball.… Read the rest
