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Turns out Yankees did Dodgers' Torre a favor
shaun.powell@newsday.comAfter giving them a dozen years of mostly meritorious service, Joe Torre thought they were suddenly doing him a great injustice. What's the word he used that fateful day? Insult. Yeah, that's it. Insult. The Yankees insulted their manager by placing...Tags: Derek Jeter, Boston Red Sox, Joe Girardi, Major League Baseball, Government
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Larger-than-life Ruth built this house
mark.herrmann@newsday.comAnyone who has followed baseball for the past 90 years could have called this shot: The biggest name in the biggest issue in the run-up to the final All-Star Game at the current Yankee Stadium is a player who last took a major-league swing in 1935. Yes,...Tags: Monuments and Heritage Sites, Major League Baseball, Movies, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb
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Yankees Tepedino, Torres and memories of the ballyard in the Bronx
bcassidy@newsday.comThe first time Frank Tepedino entered Yankee Stadium, as a 19-year-old rookie, he wondered whether he belonged there. The first time Rusty Torres entered Yankee Stadium, he got lost on his way to the clubhouse. Tepedino and Torres played briefly for the...Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hank Aaron, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Major League Baseball, Babe Ruth
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A Ruthian Drive
Courant Staff WriterThis is a work of historical fiction. Courant Staff Writer Dom Amore has created a fictional, fairly well-to-do Hartford family of 1923, lucky enough to secure four great tickets to the first game at Yankee Stadium. The characters reflect some of the...Tags: Lower House, Parliament, Major League Baseball, Regional Authority, Babe Ruth
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From the Cubicle
Are you familiar with the tale of Wally Pipp? I'm sure you are, but to recap: Pipp was the starting first baseman for the 1925 Yankees when in early June manager Miller Huggins replaced him in the lineup with a young kid from Columbia named Lou Gehrig....Tags: Chipper Jones, Ron Santo, Roger Clemens, Diving, Major League Baseball
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When heroes falter, it's forgive or forget
Sun StaffRay Lewis was accused of murder. Latrell Sprewell choked his coach. Muhammad Ali refused to go to war and was labeled a traitor. All rebounded to attain greater stature than before. Ben Johnson was stripped of a gold medal days after he set a sprint...Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Brooks Robinson, Crimes, Cal Ripken, Prisons
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Year-by-year inductees
(BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; VC: Elected by the Veterans Committee; NL: Elected by the Veterans Committee based on Negro league career): 1936 -- BBWAA: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Honus...Tags: Richie Ashburn, Luke Appling, Vic Willis, Gabby Hartnett, Ed Walsh
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Part I: 1903-35
THE FIRST 17 seasons of New York's American League franchise are years of frustration and mediocrity. Although the team, known as the Highlanders until 1913, has such players as Willie Keeler, Jack Chesbro and Hal Chase, it can only brag about its three...Tags: Willie Keeler, Boston Red Sox, Herb Pennock, History, Major League Baseball
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