The sun was high on a beautiful Saturday by the Bay when LaMonte Wade Jr. stepped to the plate. With two outs and a man on first, Wade Jr. looked calm and composed as he prepared to face Astros’ pitcher
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Tag: Barry Bonds
A Glove Story: Catching and Collecting
Of all the sports, baseball lends itself best towards the collector. There’s a wealth of memorabilia for lovers of the game to hoard and display proudly in their homes. The most prevalent and popular choice for fans has always been
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Talk the Talk and Intentionally Walk the Walk
Intentional walks or base on balls have been around for a long time in baseball. Early on in baseball, the catcher could set up much further away from the plate than they can do know. They would receive four wide
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Early season stat leaders
You know that Christian Yelich and Cody Bellinger lead MLB with 16 and 14 home runs respectively. Without doubt, it is an incredible tally this early in the season, but you might not realise that Twins’ outfielder Eddie Rosario or
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Can We Play You Every Week
“Can we play you, can we play you, can we play you every week. Can we play you every week.” Those of you more familiar with British football will recognise this chant. It is one that the fans will sing
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15 things you might not know about the American League so far in 2018
When you spend yours days looking through MLB stats for various things you start to find some stats about a few players and teams that are quite interesting. Most of these aren’t enough to flesh out into full articles but
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A Brit learning Baseball through Books: A Drive into the Gap and the selflessness of Roberto Clemente
“The problem with history is that every story has multiple witnesses, but no witness ever has the entire truth.” – Kevin Guilfoile A Drive into the Gap was one of the first books about baseball that I ever read. My
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What’s in a Cap?
Taking on another Hall of Fame controversy, a warm BF&N welcome to Padraig Whelan… This week, the 2018 National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees for the summer’s ceremony were revealed. A four-man group of Chipper Jones, Jim Thome, Vladimir Guerrero
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