The following statistics for the Maplewood (NJ) Maples Baseball team were gathered by the late Bob Roellke from records maintained by coach Russ Neide.  The Maples were a semi-professional baseball team that played in the Maplewood Twilight League, the Lackawanna League and the Essex County League during the period of 1947-1965.   A number of the [...]

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There were three bad calls on the base paths in tonight’s American League Championship Series game 4 between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Angels that should be cause for review for expansion by Major League Baseball of the instant replay rule, which today only includes whether a ball is hit fair or [...]

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There were five second bursts from the Hammond Tremolo organ, cow bells were clanging, there was fan-clapping on cue from the PA system, a lot of ‘charging’ chants from the fans in the stands and intermittent hawking of ‘Cold Beer, Peanuts’ from a vendor; but there was no infield chatter – just the sounds of [...]

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The stock market has been tanking as of late but the Tampa Bay Rays are up sweeping a three game series with the Boston Red Sox this evening with a 7-6 win.

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Baseball may have found its greatest box office attraction, the switch pitcher.
That’s right the ambidextrous pitcher that can throw equally well with both arms, which becomes quite confusing to the ambidextrous ballplayer that can hit from either side of the plate.

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For some winning isn’t everything — it’s the only thing. But for the ladies of Central Washington University softball team compassion was more important than winning.

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Roger Clemens threw a curve ball, or was it a slider to Congress and the media today when he testified under oath that his good friend Andy Pettitte “misremembered” what he had said in an exchange in 1999 or 2000 about the use of Human Growth Hormone (HGH) by his wife?
By his wife?  We thought [...]

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