Early Thoughts on the 2012 AL Rookie of the Year Race

June 15, 2012 by Andrew Martin · 4 Comments

While still early, the 2012 major league baseball season is now more than a third over, and many rookies have made intentions about being up to stay clear through their play. It’s never too early to start speculating about the Rookie of the Year race, and the American League has a number of impressive candidates. […]

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Something Stirring Beneath the Surface

September 1, 2011 by Ted Leavengood · Leave a Comment

The younger set cannot remember one of the iconic pictures of my youth: Nikita Kruschev, Russian Premier and head of the original Axis of Evil in Moscow, angrily banging his shoe on the desk at the United Nations, screaming to the US envoy to the UN, “We Will Bury You!” It was the headline in […]

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