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During my travels through baseball history, I have joined many other historians in a fascination with so-called “cup of coffee” players who played just a game or two or a few in the major leagues, or sometimes only one inning. Archibald “Moonlight” Graham’s one inning captivated Ray Kinsella enough to make him a major part […]
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, Babe Ruth
, Baseball History
, Blip
, Cup of Coffee
, Eight Seasons
, Game Career
, Grand Slam
, Hall of Fame
, League Experience
, Lifetime Record
, Lou Gehrig
, Major Leaguer
, Minor Leagues
, Novel Shoeless Joe
, One Of My Favorites
, Paul Hopkins
, Ray Kinsella
, Syracuse C
, Three Quarters
The Potomac River is near flood stage as it boils through the rapids at Great Falls, a crescendo of roaring noise. Further downstream from that much photographed natural beauty, at Nationals Park, a wave of human noise has not even begun to crest as fans of the Washington Nationals cheer a team that has risen […]
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, Braves
, Crescendo
, Edwin Jackson
, Fangraphs
, Flood Stage
, Fourth Year
, Gio Gonzalez
, Heavy Rains
, Human Noise
, Jordan Zimmermann
, Livan Hernandez
, Michael Morse
, Modesty
, Nl East
, Potomac River
, Power Rankings
, Prodigious Talent
, Public Awareness
, Public Recognition
, Reaching New Heights
, Redounds
, Relative Certainty
, Rising Tide
, Strasburg
, Superlatives
, Term Stability
, Third Season
, Uncertainty Principle
, Washington Nationals
, Watershed Moment
, Younger Man
