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A Save For Sotomayor?
5/29/2009 12:00:00 AMLet us, as lawyers say, stipulate that the president is a gentleman and a scholar. He is not, however, a reliable baseball historian. Introducing Sonia Sotomayor, he suggests that she "saved" baseball by her injunction ending the 1994–95 strike. Not exactly.
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A-Rod: The Unnatural
5/8/2009 12:00:00 AMWith a new stadium and a newly expanded payroll, this was supposed to be a joyous season of rebirth for the New York Yankees. But it has begun ugly.
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The NFL Draft: The Parity Puzzle
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The TARP Teams
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Spring Brain Training
3/28/2009 12:00:00 AMSpring training for a fan requires limbering up that lobe of the brain devoted to baseball arcana. Not "baseball trivia." Nothing about baseball is trivial. Anyway, a quiz:
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