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  • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta acquires Marquis Grissom
    • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta acquires Marquis Grissom
    Braves Franchise History 1975 - The Astros purchase Joe Niekro from the Braves. 1979 - Bob Horner suffers an ankle injury and will miss the next 32 games. The Braves fall to the Astros 2-1. 1993 - Cubs pitcher Jose Guzman takes a perfect game into the eighth inning against the Braves. Otis Nixon breaks up the no-hit bid with a single with two outs in the ninth. The Cubs win 1-0. 1995 - The Brav...2024
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  • Get to know the Myrtle Beach Pelicans
    • Get to know the Myrtle Beach Pelicans
    Cristian Hernández | Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images The lowest full-season level of the Cubs minor leagues returns with a young and hungry roster Later tonight, the Myrtle Beach Pelicans will take the field for the first time in 2024. In recent years, the Pelicans have been the team to watch in the Cubs minor league system with tons of young talent that the team ...2024
  • This Day in Braves History: Braves Trade Kimbrel and Melvin Upton to Padres
    • This Day in Braves History: Braves Trade Kimbrel and Melvin Upton to Padres
    Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1971 - The Braves defeat the Cincinnati Reds 7-4 in the first opener ever played at Riverfront Stadium. 1997 - In the second game in the history of Turner Field, rain forced the suspension of the Braves and Cubs in the seventh inning. Several players will spend the night in the clubhouse. The Braves will win the completion of the ...2024
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  • The Oakland Athletics’ rich history is being set on fire by John Fisher
    • The Oakland Athletics’ rich history is being set on fire by John Fisher
    Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images The A’s will officially be playing Sacramento in 2025 before a planned move to Vegas. A once-dynastic baseball town has been abandoned. It’s official. At the end of the 2024 campaign, the Oakland Athletics will be dead. They will play at least their next three seasons at Sutter Health Park, home of the minor-league Sacramento River Cats, and aim to move...2024
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  • This Day in Braves History: Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth with 714th home run
    • This Day in Braves History: Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth with 714th home run
    Braves Franchise History 1974 - Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth with 714 career home runs with a three-run shot off of Reds pitcher Jack Billingham. MLB History 1911 - Automobile maker Hugh Chalmers announces that he will award a new car to the player who is selected as MVP by the baseball writers. 1977 - The Pirates acquire outfielder Mike Easler from the California Angels in exchange for minor leagu...2024
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  • Today in White Sox History: March 30
    • Today in White Sox History: March 30
    On this day 46 years ago, Pablo Torrealba came to the White Sox, at a pretty steep cost. | Topps A bad trade that helped doom the 1978 club 1970 In a swap of arms, the White Sox deal Jerry Nyman to San Diego for Tommie Sisk. Both players would throw their last in the majors in 1970, with Nyman making two starts (15.19 ERA, -0.4 WAR). Sisk did a lot of damage quickly, throwing 17 (1-1, 5.4...2024
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  • • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta acquires Marquis Grissom
    2024
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  • • Get to know the Myrtle Beach Pelicans
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  • • This Day in Braves History: Braves Trade Kimbrel and Melvin Upton to Padres
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  • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta signs Gaylord Perry
    • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta signs Gaylord Perry
    Photo by MLB via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1906 - The owners of the Boston Beaneaters reject a $250,000 offer for the team. 1949 - The New York Giants are fined $2,000, and their manager Leo Durocher $500, for signing Freddie Fitzsimmons as a coach while he was still under contract to the Boston Braves. Fitzsimmons gets a $500 fine and a 30-day spring training suspension. 1972 ...2024
  • A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1988
    • A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1988
    Photo by: 1991 SPX/Diamond Images via Getty Images Some big names both arrived and departed. The Cubs had hoped to contend with the signing of Andre Dawson in 1987. They did for a while, but collapsed in September. Former manager Jim Frey, now GM, attempted to make that right in ‘88. He made some... interesting (translation: mostly not good) deals. February 12: Acquired Rich Gossage and Ra...2023
  • Sammy Sosa, Tom Ricketts and the Cubs
    • Sammy Sosa, Tom Ricketts and the Cubs
    Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images It’s time to touch the third rail. Wednesday, I posted the text of an email Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts had sent to fans. Many of the comments to that post had to do with the relationship, or non-relationship, between Ricketts and former Cubs star Sammy Sosa. So I thought it’s time I addressed this issue. Let’s stipulate ...2023
  • Baseball history unpacked, September 13
    • Baseball history unpacked, September 13
    Alec Mills throws a no-no | Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources, a little bit cheesy but nicely displayed. Mills’ no-hitter and many other stories on a big day in MLB history. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s...2023
  • Weekend Rumblings - News for September 9, 2023
    • Weekend Rumblings - News for September 9, 2023
    Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Royals hitters are making contact. Anne Rogers writes how Cole Ragans learned from Cole Hamels. The reason for the similarities is partly by design. When Ragans, 25, was a junior at North Florida Christian High School, he added an overhead windup to help with his timing. He used Google to help find other lefties who did the same. Ham...2023
  • This Day in Braves History: Julio Teheran picks up first major league win
    • This Day in Braves History: Julio Teheran picks up first major league win
    Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1928: The Phillies take two from the Braves, winning 10-6 and 4-0. Earl Caldwell, who reported to the Phillies yesterday, tosses the shutout in his first major league start. 1955: With a 10-2 win over the Braves at Milwaukee’s County Stadium, the Dodgers clinch the National League pennant with a 17-game lead. It is the earl...2023
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  • Baseball history unpacked, September 8
    • Baseball history unpacked, September 8
    Photo by Chris Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources, a little bit cheesy but nicely displayed. We boldly go where baseball history has been before. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty ...2023
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Mark McGwire lifestyle

  • • Would Bonds, Clemens Entry Open Up Hall of Fame Floodgates?
    2017
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  • • Is There Anybody Left in Los Angeles Whom Yasiel Puig Hasn't Alienated?
    2015
  • • With Lessons of Game's Greats, Mike Trout Poised for Move from MVP to MLB Icon
    2015
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  • • Sammy Sosa in Exile: There's Silence Rather Than Apology from Former Cubs Star
    2015
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Timeline

  • 2024
    "José Canseco and Mark McGwire won back-to-back AL Rookie of the Year honors from 1986-87, and under manager Tony La Russa, the “Bash Brothers” helped the A’s skyrocket to 104 wins in ‘88 — more than even the 1972-74 dynasty ever accomplished in a regular season."

  • 2023
    "Olympic team are drafted in the first round including Mark McGwire who was taken by Oakland with the 10th overall pick."

  • 2022
    "says he considers the records held by Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire to be illegitimate"

  • 2021
    "Ball has been everything and […] The post LaMelo Ball draws crazy comparison to Mark McGwire appeared first on ClutchPoints."

  • 2020
    "While everyone else watched Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa hit homers in 1998, the Yankees had one of MLB's greatest seasons -- but it has been largely lost to history."

  • 2019
    "813 winning percentage) are probably not going to continue on their current trajectory and win 140 games this season, as it’s unlikely their entire lineup (157 wRC+) is basically Mark McGwire (career 157 wRC+)."

  • 2018
    "But amid allegations of a failed drug test and never-ending whispers about PEDs haunting the latter part of his career, Sammy Sosa -- like his great rival Mark McGwire -- will not get to Cooperstown unless attitudes change dramatically."

  • 2017
    "Aaron Judge hits 49th home run, tying Mark McGwire for all-time rookie record"

  • 2016
    "Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa are the notable exclusions, while Jeff Bagwell and Jeff Kent suffered from simply playing in the PED era."

  • 2015
    "Dodgers hitting coach Mark McGwire, general manager Farhan Zaidi, pitching coach Rick Honeycutt and special advisor Sandy Koufax all gathered on the field behind a batting cage at Camelback Ranch to watch a teenage phenom throw live batting practice Sunday afternoon."

  • 2014
    "Is John Smoltz Worthy of Being First-Ballot 2015 Hall of Famer?"

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Mark McGwire trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

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  • • This Day in Braves History: Braves Trade Kimbrel and Melvin Upton to Padres
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  • • The Oakland Athletics’ rich history is being set on fire by John Fisher
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  • • This Day in Braves History: Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth with 714th home run
    2024
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  • • Today in White Sox History: March 30
    2024
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  • The card show comes to me
    • The card show comes to me
    Saturday was a first for me, having not one but two fellow cardbloggers hand-deliver boxes of cards to my door. How great is that?! First was Kevin from The Diamond King who was down in my neck of the woods Saturday morning for the local card show. Then in the afternoon, Rod from Padrographs dropped off another box while I was out walking Ruby. Plus I received one eBay pick up in Saturda...2024
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  • • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta signs Gaylord Perry
    2024
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  • • A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1988
    2023
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  • This Day in Braves History: Max Fried wins first Gold Glove Award
    • This Day in Braves History: Max Fried wins first Gold Glove Award
    Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1928 - Voters in Massachusetts approve Sunday baseball in Boston, provided that Braves Field is more than 1,000 feet from a church. This leaves Pennsylvania as the only state with no Sunday baseball in the major leagues. 1960 - Warren Spahn finishes second in Cy Young voting to Vern Law, who finished 20...2023
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  • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta wins second World Series championship
    • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta wins second World Series championship
    Photo by Houston Astros/MLB Photos via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1927 - Boston College baseball coach Jack Slattery agrees to manage the Boston Braves for a year. 1972 - The Braves acquire Gary Gentry and Danny Frisella from the New York Mets in exchange for second baseman Felix Milan and pitcher George Stone. 1974 - Atlanta trades Hank Aaron to the Milwaukee Brewers for outf...2023

Mark McGwire stats and results

  • • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta acquires Marquis Grissom
    2024
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  • • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta wins second World Series championship
    2023
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  • This Day in Braves History: Albert Hall hits for the cycle
    • This Day in Braves History: Albert Hall hits for the cycle
    Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1933: The Phillies and Braves, split a twin bill, each winning 5-4. Chuck Klein has three hits in each game, including his National League-high 28th homer in the opener. Boston’s Wally Berger, second in homers with 26, is out of action and doesn’t play today. 1948: The Braves clinch the National League flag by defeating the G...2023
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  • • Weekend Rumblings - News for September 9, 2023
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  • Baseball history unpacked, August 28
    • Baseball history unpacked, August 28
    Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources, a little bit cheesy but nicely displayed. Sammy slugs, Sandberg clubs, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and va...2023
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  • • This Day in Braves History: May 16
    Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1929 - The Braves sweep a doubleheader against New York despite Mel Ott hitting for the cycle. Joe Dugan also finished with four hits in Game 2. 1953 - Billy Bruton leads off the game with a single, Phillies pitcher Curt Simmons retires the next 27 batters to take a 3-0 win. The loss snaps Milwaukee’s six game winning streak. ...2023
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  • • Dmitri Young: 1998 Cincinnati Reds Locker Room Was Split Down The Middle Between NWO and NWO Wolfpac
    The following has been paid for by the Cincinnati Reds World Order. In the summer of 1998, Baseball was hot, with Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa on the chase for Roger Maris's Home Run record. During that same summer, part of the Cincinnati Reds Locker Room was part of a team separated because of their love for their love of Pro Wrestling. This week an original returned home to The Wrestling Perspect...2023
  • • This Day in Braves History: Upton Brothers walk off Cubs
    Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1975 - The Astros purchase Joe Niekro from the Braves. 1979 - Bob Horner suffers an ankle injury and will miss the next 32 games. The Braves fall to the Astros 2-1. 1993 - Cubs pitcher Jose Guzman takes a perfect game into the eighth inning against the Braves. Otis Nixon breaks up the no-hit bid with a single with two outs in the n...2023
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  • • Third annual South Side Sox Veterans Committee Hall of Fame election: No dice
    Kenny Lofton beat the tag here, but couldn’t even cross 60% HOF support from readers. SSS readers are non-plussed in support of any of the 10 players on our loaded 1990s ballot Not much to say here, really, as our curated, loaded, vote-for-all-10-if-you-want Veterans Committee ballot has gone softly into the good night. The results, from 1,089 individual ballots, placed no one in the Hall ...2023

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    2024
  • • The card show comes to me
    2024
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  • • A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1988
    2023
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  • • Sammy Sosa, Tom Ricketts and the Cubs
    2023
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  • Remembering the 1998 home run race
    • Remembering the 1998 home run race
    Mark McGwire #25 of the St. Louis Cardinals talks with Sammy Sosa #21 of the Chicago Cubs during a game at Wrigley Field circa 1998 in Chicago, Illinois. | Photo by SPX/Diamond Images via Getty Images That sure was a fun season In some ways, it’s extremely surprising it took until now for me to realize that this year is the 25th anniversary of Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa’s historical home ...2023
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  • • Weekend Rumblings - News for September 9, 2023
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  • • This Day in Braves History: Julio Teheran picks up first major league win
    2023
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  • • Baseball history unpacked, August 28
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  • Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa’s race for home run history deserves a deep rewind
    • Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa’s race for home run history deserves a deep rewind
    You might remember where things ended, but what about how we got there in the first place? Home runs! Dingers! Moon shots! That’s all the country could think about when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa raced to break the single-season home run record in 1998. Before entering that season, journalists predicted Roger Maris’ nearly four-decade record of 61 homers would finally fall thanks to the surge of...2023
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Top Mark McGwire news

  • Roger Maris Jr. says Aaron Judge should be considered true record-holder if he hits 62 home runs
    • Roger Maris Jr. says Aaron Judge should be considered true record-holder if he hits 62 home runs
    Maris Jr. says he considers the records held by Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire to be illegitimate...2022
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  • • Urias impresses Dodgers in live batting practice
    2015
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  • • Pedro Martinez Believes 60% of MLB Players Were Using PEDs During His Career
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  • Albert Pujols joins 700 HR club: The best stories from those who played with and against him
    • Albert Pujols joins 700 HR club: The best stories from those who played with and against him
    Mike Trout, Mark McGwire, Alex Rodriguez, Brad Lidge and more reflect on the most memorable moments on Pujols' path to 700....2022
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  • • The Yankees, overshadowed? Why the 'best team ever' never got its due
    While everyone else watched Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa hit homers in 1998, the Yankees had one of MLB's greatest seasons -- but it has been largely lost to history. And that still irks Joe Torre....2020
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  • • Barry Bonds in Twilight: Reemerging to a Less Judgmental Generation
    2015
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  • • Aaron Judge hits 49th home run, tying Mark McGwire for all-time rookie record
    No other rookie in baseball history has hit more home runs than Judge has this year...2017
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  • • Bryce Harper's All-Time 2015 Stands Alongside Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds
    2015
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  • • Remembering the 1998 home run race
    2023
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  • • Scott Miller's Starting 9: Yankees Try Building Without Opening Their Checkbook
    2016
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  • • The Psychology of the Patriots: Why Brady and Belichick Would Cheat
    2015
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  • • Big Unit, Pedro, Smoltz and More: Scott Miller's 2015 Hall of Fame Ballot
    2015
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  • • Is John Smoltz Worthy of Being First-Ballot 2015 Hall of Famer?
    2014
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Mark McGwire schedule, game

  • • This Day in Braves History: Braves Trade Kimbrel and Melvin Upton to Padres
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  • • The Oakland Athletics’ rich history is being set on fire by John Fisher
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  • • Today in White Sox History: March 30
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  • • Now We’ve Got Mark McGwire in Cubs Gear
    The Cubs have embraced one member of the 1998 home run race, just not the one who competed for them. Not long after former Cardinals icon Yadier Molina was photographed wearing a Cubs hat and shirt, Mark McGwire was spotted in Cubs gear on the Sloan Park backfields. As you have probably already discerned, he … The post Now We’ve Got Mark McGwire in Cubs Gear appeared first on Cubs Insi...2024
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  • • This Day in Braves History: Atlanta signs Gaylord Perry
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  • • This Day in Braves History: Max Fried wins first Gold Glove Award
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  • Baseball history unpacked, September 25
    • Baseball history unpacked, September 25
    the Hawk goes deep | Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Dawson hits two, Sammy hits 66, and other bat-drama. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives...2023
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  • • This Day in Braves History: Albert Hall hits for the cycle
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Mark McGwire rumors, scandals

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  • • Today in White Sox History: March 30
    Roland Hemond doubled his Laws for the month of March by adding Rudy to Vance, on this day 41 years ago. | Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images The end-of-spring deals, they just keep coming 1970 In a swap of arms, the White Sox deal Jerry Nyman to San Diego for Tommie Sisk. Both players would throw their last in the majors in 1970, with Nyman making two starts (15.19 ERA, -0.4 WAR). Si...2023
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  • • Sosa facing uphill climb in quest for Cooperstown
    It's all about 609 home runs, a massive number. But amid allegations of a failed drug test and never-ending whispers about PEDs haunting the latter part of his career, Sammy Sosa -- like his great rival Mark McGwire -- will not get to Cooperstown unless attitudes change dramatically....2018
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  • • Scott Miller's Starting 9: Yankees Try Building Without Opening Their Checkbook
    2016
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  • • Paul Goldschmidt-A.J. Pollock Are MLB's Most Underrated Star Duo
    2016
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  • • Scott Miller's Starting 9: PED Era Makes for Clear Choices in Hall of Fame Vote
    2016
  • • David Ortiz's 500-Home Run Milestone Leaves Polarizing Legacy in Its Wake
    2015
  • • Barry Bonds in Twilight: Reemerging to a Less Judgmental Generation
    2015
  • • The Chicago Cubs Can Be Surprise World Series Contenders
    2015

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