By Todd Hartley on September 12, 2003
Don’t you hate it when you can see a train wreck coming and you’re powerless to do anything to prevent it? Imagine that feeling, and now imagine what it would be like if there were three train wrecks you couldn’t stop, and that’ll give you an idea of how baseball’s pennant races are shaping up this year.
You may have heard that the city of Chicago was making news because both the Cubs and the White Sox were in first place in their respective divisions. You may have heard this as recently as two days ago, in fact, because such was the case on Wednesday. Continue reading »
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By Todd Hartley on June 6, 2003
Let me tell you a little something about Norm Cash, an old baseball player – most notably for the Detroit Tigers in the early ’60s – and the best friend and worst enemy Sammy Sosa has right now.
Cash was a fairly undistinguished .270 hitter over the course of his career, but in 1961 he got his act together and won the American League batting title with a .361 average. He never hit better than .290 in any season after that.
Norm Cash was also, admittedly, a cheater. Continue reading »
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