Tuesday, August 03, 2004

senior league baseball bats: 08-03-2004

2004 Summer Olympic Games Preview - Baseball
From: www.zwire.com

" Summer Olympic Games Preview Baseball *** From The Sports Network By Eric Gold MLB Editor OVERVIEW Abner Doubleday was the first to be officially recognized as the creator of baseball but recent evidence may prove otherwise. Doubleday is credited with coming up for the rules of baseball in 1839 in Cooperstown New York the current site of the Baseball Hall of Fame."

The New York Times > Sports > Baseball > Keeping Score: Looking Beyond Batting Average
From: www.nytimes.com

" Rickey a baseball executive just eight years removed from signing Jackie Robinson called it the most constructive thing to come into baseball in my memory. Fifty years ago this week a 10-page spread in Life magazine then the nation's most widely read periodical introduced America to the science of baseball statistics."

2004 Summer Olympic Games Preview - Baseball
From: www.sportsnetwork.com

" Doubleday is credited with coming up for the rules of baseball in 1839 in Cooperstown New York the current site of the Baseball Hall of Fame. However mention of the game was reported in 1744 in London in John Newbery's A Pretty Little Pocket-Book. In 1825 the Delhi N.Y. Gazette reported about a baseball challenge for 1 per game."

Baseball News: newsday /// articles ii
From: www.capspecialties.com

" RANDY JOHNSON WATCH Big Unit shakes off D-Backs-to-Dodgers Angels still in mix, but Yankees continue vigil with clock ticking Woodbury Country Club Granite Countertops Giovanni Rosso Elegant Living Grinnell American A.W.S. Poseidon Pool and Spa BY KEN DAVIDOFF AND..."

Baseball News: ny post /// articles
From: www.capspecialties.com

" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- New York Yankees base runner Alex Rodriguez (13) looks up for the call=20 after being tagged by Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Eric Hinske Photo=20 by:Reuters Email Archives Print Reprint July 29, 2004 -- TORONTO =97 Jon..."

Baseball News: newsday /// articles
From: www.capspecialties.com

" BLUE JAYS 3, YANKEES 2 Heredias no relief Lieber goes 7 2/3 and Sheff hits solo homer, but it goes for naught as lefthander fails again before Yanks fall in 10th The Historical Thathed Cottage Woodbury Country Club Grover..."

New York City
From: www.nynewsday.com

"It is good because the Yankees still are a big deal without The Big Unit - they drew 51,632 to their 9-7 win over the Orioles at the Stadium yesterday, a win that moved the Yankees 9 games ahead of the Red Sox. It is good because the Yankees made an honest-to- goodness standout baseball trade instead. Getting Esteban Loaiza from the White Sox for Jose Contreras meant they had outsmarted someone, not outspent them. Most of all, it is good because the very soul of baseball says you're not supposed to get something for nothing. The game is built on a foundation of checks and balances."

MLB.TV Games of the Week
From: chicago.cubs.mlb.com

"Victor Zambrano faces Victor Santos on Wednesday, and to the victor of that game go the spoils of Wild Card survival. It will mark the Mets debut for the former, and he will match up against a rising Brewer star, and like seemingly every game on the MLB.TV docket this week, it will come with some kind of playoff race punch. The Yankees will roll out Esteban Loaiza in a huge series at home against Oakland, one which will also see New York attempt to keep Mark Mulder winless in three regular-season Yankee Stadium starts. Randy Johnson, who did not get traded to the Yankees or anyone else, will face the Marlins, who he has owned this season."

SantaMariaTimes.com
From: www.santamariatimes.com

"Sure, but everybody at Wrigley Field wanted to see HIM win. The 38-year-old right-hander is trying to become the 22nd major league pitcher to reach 300 victories _ and the first National Leaguer since Philadelphia's Steve Carlton in 1983. Roger Clemens accomplished the feat on his fourth try with the New York Yankees last season. Maddux's next chance probably will come Saturday in San Francisco against Barry Bonds and the Giants. "I think we were all hoping we'd get Maddux that win," said Garciaparra, Chicago's new star shortstop. In other NL games, it was: St."