While Early, Attendance Is Strong With Numerous Crowds of 7,000

May 25, 2012 by Bob Wirz · Leave a Comment

Joke all you want about how everything seems bigger in Texas, but there is a certain truth in the early weeks of the Independent Baseball season with El Paso luring the biggest single game crowd (7,823) and Sugar Land reaching the 7,000 plateau in each of its first six home games. Lone Star State teams […]

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Another Brick in the Wall

June 2, 2010 by Ted Leavengood · Leave a Comment

Is Strasburg’s looming debut next Tuesday more important for the future of the Nationals, or Roy Oswalt’s admission on Tuesday of this week, that he would accept a trade to Washington? The two are inextricably linked. Â Oswalt’s view that there are good things going on in Washington redounds to the excitement Strasburg is generating, but […]

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“Ted Williams and the 1969 Washington Senators, the Last Winning Season”

December 11, 2008 by Ted Leavengood · 3 Comments

The author’s second book, Ted Williams and the 1969 Washington Senators: The Last Winning Season, is scheduled to be released by McFarland Publishing on February 24, 2009.

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