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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on February 19, 2011. Thom Gunn was born in Britain but is associated more often with San Francisco and the excesses of American bohemianism than with the country of his birth. Yet his poetry has… Read more
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On June 24th, 1979, Rickey Henderson made his major-league debut for Oakland in a 5-1 loss to Texas in the first game of a doubleheader. Henderson had a single and double in four at-bats and stole the first base of his big-league career. If you have ever watched a game when a rookie gets his… Read more
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In the kitchen, she found the note on the table and read it several times, as if it were in code and had to be deciphered. Finally, she left it where she had found it and went outside. She was gone a long rime. When she came back to the kitchen, she read the note… Read more
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On June 21st, 1917, “Scrappy” Moore, played his first Major League game for the St. Louis Browns vs. the Detroit Tigers. William Allen “Scrappy” Moore was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1892. He pinch hit and played 3B in a total of 4 major leagues games in his career, all in 1917. He also… Read more
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As they say “Sh*t Happens.” At 9:00AM this morning, my bride(and one of my most loyal readers) sent me a message about the post that was supposed to be here today. What she saw, and what I saw when I went to look at this post myself, was only this: s That’s it!. Only a… Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on February 10, 2011 Richard Hugo is one of a number of Montana poets and writers who came from somewhere else and settled in Montana as an adult. Unlike Thomas McGuane, for example, who is… Read more
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On June 18th, 1976, Commissioner Bowie Kuhn voided the A’s sales, totaling $3.5 million, of Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers to the Red Sox and Vida Blue to the Yankees, saying they were ‘not in the best interest of baseball.’ A’s owner Charlie Finley filed a $10 million damage suit against Kuhn, and would refuse… Read more
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On June 17th, 1983 Andy Van Slyke played in his first Major League game. In his 13-year career, Andy Van Slyke played for the Cardinals, the Pirates, the Orioles, and the Phillies. For 8 of those seasons of course, he was the standout Centerfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, where he won 5 Gold Gloves. Van… Read more
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“Feel better?” he asked. “Yes, thanks.” She watched in trance-like detachment as he worked at the kitchen shelf. He measured coffee into a percolator, added water and set it on the stove. He broke two eggs into a bowl and whipped them, added milk and seasoning, and got out an iron skillet and put some… Read more
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Born when I was, I grew up measuring hitters by the traditional Triple Crown stats: Batting Average, Home Runs, and Runs Batted In. Those were stats that were easy to understand and were available in any box score. The Sabermetrics Revolution started by Bill James and others introduced more “advanced” stats over the years like… Read more
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