How about yours?
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UPDATE: So it turns out this guy gave the previous ball he caught to this kid. So it just goes to show you how cautious we should be before jumping to judgment. Mea culps!
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Doc was much loved here in Philadelphia. Just a sweetheart.
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Former Phillies star pitcher Roy Halladay died in a plane crash in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday. He was 40. CBS Philly first reported on the plane crash. Tampa Bay’s CBS affiliate reported that the plane was owned by Halladay. Continue reading “Ex-Phillies ace Roy Halladay dies in plane crash”
What a game, huh? What a game. I was so impressed by Cleveland, too. That team just wouldn’t quit:
The Chicago Cubs ended their 108-year World Series drought on Wednesday, and no one had more fun than Bill Murray. The actor and longtime Cubs fan, who we last saw giving a World Series ticket to a fan turned away at the box office, was in the stands in Cleveland for Chicago’s incredible Game 7 win…… Continue reading “Bill Murray watched the Cubs win the World Series and had the absolute best time”
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Major Baseball League’s first black player is pitched to receive a posthumous apology for the bitter racism he endured 69 years ago during a visit to the City of Brotherly Love.
Philadelphia’s City Council unanimously passed a resolution today to officially apologize to the late Jackie Robinson who made MBL history on April 15, 1947.
“Unfortunately in Philadelphia, Jackie Robinson experienced some of the most virulent racism and hate of his career,” Councilwoman Helen Gym, who introduced the resolution, told ABC News. “Our colleagues decided to introduce this resolution to celebrate Jackie Robinson.”
Robinson was refused service by a local hotel in the city and was taunted by Philadelphia Phillies manager Ben Chapman. Opposing players would hurl racial slurs every time Robinson went up to bat.
The Kansas City Royal come from behind in the ninth inning to beat the Mets and win the World Series! (I’m so old, I remember when the Phillies used to play heartstopping post-season games like that!) Congrats, KC!
NEW YORK — The legend of the 2015 Kansas City Royals came to a full and insane completion here at Citi Field on Sunday night as the team from Missouri did a “Show Me” tap dance on the heads and hearts of every New York Mets fan in the fifth and ultimately final game of the 111th World Series.
The Royals are baseball’s champs for the first time in 30 years, 7-2 in 12 innings. But that number “111” may actually be more appropriate than any final score or time between titles. Apparently, that’s the number of times you have to kill the Royals to keep them dead. Otherwise, it’s just Halloween every day of the postseason until the last soul-scorching defeat they inflict on a merely mortal foe.
The Mets will tell their grandchildren to the end of their days, “Turn off that damn horror movie! No more ‘Night of the Living Dead.’ It seems too real. I had to play the Undead Royals in the World Series!”
Perhaps you need a sense of baseball odds to grasp the near impossibility of a team having eight come-from-behind wins in its 11 road-to-a-title victories, including seven comebacks from two-or-more runs behind. Nah, you get it.
What the Royals did to the team with the superhero nicknames for its stars was right out of a comic book with capitalized captions: Stomp, Crunch, CRASH!!!
