The Sophomore of the Year Award

January 23, 2013 by Matt Nadel · Leave a Comment

Hey baseball fans! Today’s blog is about a very interesting award that was only around in the 1950s. It isn’t really that well-known, but if you read my Frank Malzone interview, you should know that he won the Sophomore of the Year Award. The Sophomore of the Year Award was created in 1953. It was awarded […]

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Donâ€™t Leave Home Without It!

June 2, 2010 by Jon Daly · 1 Comment

Bruce Markusen recently wrote about George Scott. The Boomer, as he was sometimes called, battled with the scale as a player. One of his managers said that he went sight-seeing in a supermarket. He was a key member of the â€œImpossible Dreamâ€ Red Sox of 1967. Folks of a certain age may remember that â€œThe […]

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