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Six months after breaking the record for single-item baseball memorabilia sales, the T206 Honus Wagner card has sold again for a new record of $2.8 million. (September 6, 2007)
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Hank Aaron returns to Milwaukee to participate in a 50-year reunion of the '57 Braves world championship team. (September 2, 2007)
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The Texas Rangers record-setting game against the Baltimore Orioles echoes back to Cap Anson's last season in baseball with the 1897 Chicago Colts. (August 26, 2007)
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Before the Curse
The Glory Days of New England Baseball, 1858–1918
Troy Soos
One thousand fans turned out in 40-degree weather on
May 1 for Opening Day at the Fairgrounds, with many of them watching the
game from carriages parked around the edge of the playing field. They got
to see what they had hoped for: the Brown Stockings pounded the Troy
Trojans 13–1 to win their first game as a major league team. The victory
was especially sweet because Troy had been the only National League club
to oppose Worcester’s admission to the League. This was the first match of
what was to become an intense rivalry between the two teams...
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The Giants and the Dodgers
Four Cities, Two Teams, One Rivalry
Andrew Goldblatt
The rivalry between the Dodgers and the Giants has always
been fierce and often a war of words, players fighting it out through the
press as much as on the field. Nowhere was this more evident than in the 1934
season when a biting quip by Giant first baseman/manager Bill Terry inflamed
the lowly Dodgers and ultimately inspired them to knock the defending N.L.
champs out of the World Series...read more
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