Robin White Sox Redux

October 7, 2011 by Terry Keshner · Leave a Comment

On Thursday afternoon I received a text message from my cousin and fellow die-hard White Sox fan, Owen, and it contained just one word: Robin? Naturally, I replied with the first word that came to my mind: Batman? Just kidding. The word I actually replied with was Ventura? As I honestly wondered whether Owen’s single-word […]

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Hall of Fame Killers

May 18, 2010 by Justin Murphy · 1 Comment

Any Seamheads reader should know by now that thereâ€™s a lot of good information at baseball-reference.com. In particular, in the Play Index. For instance: in the last decade, Miguel Tejada led the majors with 223 groundball double play, 28 more than runner-up Paul Konerko. That is only one ground ball short of Jim Riceâ€™s 224 […]

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