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Bryce Harper: The Next Babe Ruth?

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:39:35 GMT

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Sports Illustrated recently wrote a piece on a 16 year old phenom from Las Vegas… Bryce Harper. The cover shows Bryce in his follow through with the words: 570 foot home runs, 96 mph fastballs, 16 years old. Those three numbers alone are all you need to know to that this kid is a legit superstar. To the left of his picture, he is referred to as “The Chosen One”, who is the most exciting prodigy since LeBron (James). Once I read the cover, I had to see what all the hype is about. The kid, and I am using kid lightly because he is a beast, stands at 6′3″ and weighs 205 pounds. That type of physique is easily comparable to Alex Rodriguez.

When he was asked what his goals were as a baseball player, he responded confidently:

“Be in the Hall of Fame, definitely. Play in pinstripes. Be considered the greatest baseball player who ever lived. I can’t wait.”

Do you think Bryce Harper will be a MLB superstar? What are your thoughts on this talented 16 year old?

Tags: bryce harper, alex rodriguez, babe ruth, lebron james, sports illustrated, mickey mantle

Honoring Satchel Paige

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:33:08 GMT

clipped by: chestnut501
clipper's remarks: On Saturday in Cincinnati, baseball will stage its Civil Rights Game, an event created three years ago to draw attention to the game’s racial legacy, which pre-1947 meant players of color were excluded from wearing a big-league uniform.

Clip Source: sports.yahoo.com

It’s time to retire Cy Young. I’m all for tradition, but baseball has more important people to remember than a man who began his career in the horse-and-buggy age. He’s had his name on the award for the game’s best pitcher for over half a century, plenty long to honor his place in the game. See ya, Cy.

Let’s rename the award after a man who won more games than Young, struck out more batters than Nolan Ryan, pitched in at least twice as many games as anyone else, and had a persona that rivaled Babe Ruth’s.

The name is Leroy “Satchel” Paige, and it deserves to be etched on a trophy that would guarantee he will not be forgotten.

“If Jackie Robinson was the father of equal opportunity in baseball, surely Satchel Paige was the grandfather,” writes Larry Tye, author of the new biography, “Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend.”

True Grit

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:24:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: November 27, 1931: Concert pianist Paul Wittgenstein impresses a Vienna audience with his performance of Maurice Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand. The pianist refused to give up his career after losing his right arm in World War I.

1981: John Kennedy Toole is posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for A Confederacy of Dunces. His gritty mom, Thelma Ducoing Toole, had enlisted the initially skeptical Walker Percy to help get the book published after Toole’s suicide.
1993: Andrew Wiles announces that after many years of work he has solved the seemingly unsolvable Fermat’s Last Theorem. Mathematicians discover a small error, but Wiles resolves it within another year.

October 2008: After a decade spent lobbying, high school dropout Alvin Sykes sees the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act " named for the black teenager brutally murdered in 1955 for reportedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi " signed into law, largely because of his relentless efforts.

Clip Source: www.incharacter.org

June 23, 1312: A despondent Robert the Bruce, defeated and considering flight, watches a spider build its web – it takes seven tries. Inspired, Bruce adopts the motto “Try, try, and try again.” He wins the Battle of Bannockburn.

Winter, 1609–1610: The straggling band of Jamestown settlers is ravaged by hunger and disease during “The Starving Time.” Many are ready to give up, but when a supply ship arrives they are persuaded to try again.

December 1879: After more than 10,000 failed experiments, Thomas Edison gives a demonstration of his new incandescent bulb.

April 5, 1887: Thanks to the persistence of teacher Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller finally spells out “w-a-t-e-r” at the watering pump.

1927: Babe Ruth hits an astonishing 60 home runs in one season. The Babe struck out more than any baseball player of his day — but he also hit more homers.

Everyone's Hero

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:17:24 GMT

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Clip Source: movamba.com

Everyone's Hero

"Everyone's Hero" is a heartwarming comedy-adventure, telling the story of a young boy's thousand-mile journey to help Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees win the World Series. The project's theme of perseverance against all odds was inspired by the film's originating director and executive producer, Christopher Reeve

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Tags: animation, movies

Obama: Normandy. Inchon. Khe San. Gettysburg, et. al.

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:05:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's Not that the content of President Obama's speechs are extraordinary or his ability to give one second to none but for those of us who notice such things he goes around hitting Home Runs out of the ballpark like he's Babe Ruth or Hank Arron...or you might say he's a striker who's gonna take the team to the World Cup.

Put aside all the criticism he gets daily in the corrosive media - he has a tremendous love of his country, it's struggles and it's history .

It's very inclusive of us all. Finally, after 65 years of praising Normandy someone mentions Inchon & Khe San.

It's also very balanced, he see the good and the bad but knows that better is better. He's said, 4example, the war in Iraq was W-R-O-N-G. Has any president every said a war was wrong before?

Of course this may not be everyone's cup of tea but to honor the dead soldier in a nation's struggles is a worldwide and (sorrowful) eternal task,

Here, his speech tolls the Liberty Bell.
May we all come to rest in

Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

That is the story of Normandy - but also the story of America; of the Minutemen who gathered on a green in Lexington; of the Union boys from Maine who repelled a charge at Gettysburg; of the men who gave their last full measure of devotion at Inchon and Khe San; of all the young men and women whose valor and goodness still carry forward this legacy of service and sacrifice.

At an hour of maximum danger

And they fought out of a simple sense of duty - a duty sustained by the same ideals for which their countrymen had once fought and bled for over two centuries.

Tags: obama: normandy. inchon. khe san. gettysburg

100-Year-Old Batboy Decades-Long Sox Fan

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:49:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: why i love baseball...

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But it did. Wearing his custom-make "Big Pappy" Boston Red Sox Jersey - a gift from his daughter - Giddon arrived for batting practice at Fenway Park Saturday. He handled more helmets than bats. A string of Red Sox players made a point to meet him, including the real "Big Papi," slugger David Ortiz.

"You got some hits for me," Ortiz asked Giddon.

The last time Giddon was a batboy was 1923 - a bag of peanuts cost 5 cents, and he was 13, working for the old Boston Braves. Giddon once met Babe Ruth, but his favorite player was Ted Williams.

"Did you ever thing about playing baseball?" Pinkston asked.

"It was more of a dream," Giddon said. "But I don't think I was built for it. I wasn't tall or strong enough."

It was Kennesaw Mountain Landis, the first commissioner of baseball, who steered him to a different career.

"He says, 'I think you ought to be a lawyer, you ought to go to law school,'" Giddon said.

That's what Giddon

Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

100 year-old Arthur Giddon got to fulfill a lifetime wish when he was named the honorary batboy for the Boston Red Sox. Randall Pinkston reports. | Share/Embed

(CBS) At home in Connecticut, Arthur Giddon begins every day working out.

"Keep your body from becoming stiff and old, and aged," he said.

That attitude may be one of the reasons Giddon celebrated his 100th birthday with a special wish, reports CBS News correspondent Randall Pinkston.

"I said it would be wonderful to be a batboy again," Giddon asked.

"Did you think it was going to happen," Pinkston asked.

"No," Giddon said.

But it did. Wearing his custom-make "Big Pappy" Boston Red Sox Jersey - a gift from his daughter - Giddon arrived for batting practice at Fenway Park Saturday. He handled more helmets than bats. A string of Red Sox players made a point to meet him, including the real "Big Papi," slugger David Ortiz.

A centennial birthday wish, come true.

legends? to ima veze sa jrock, a? dada, mochiron.

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:31:32 GMT

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"Heroes get remembered, but legends never die." - Babe Ruth

No to Hall of Fame Q

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:34:53 GMT

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Clip Source: bleacherreport.com

By allowing players like Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire into the Hall of Fame, we are opening statistics up to interpretation. You know how people always say that the numbers don’t lie? In this case, the numbers

would lie.

Assuming that Barry Bonds’ career is over, he has finished with seven more career home runs (762) than Hank Aaron (755). Were seven or more of those home runs directly caused by the steroids that Bonds took? How many home runs would Bonds have wound up with had he not taken steroids? These shouldn’t be questions that we have to discuss.

Baseball is America’s “National Pastime.” It has been around for over a century and a half. It’s a sport that prides itself on its tremendous history and part of that history is the statistics.

Another thing that is important is the names attached to those statistics. Willie Mays and Sammy Sosa? Babe Ruth and Mark McGwire? Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds? Come on. Legends don’t belong in the same breath as the names italicized above.

Obama Owns the Room

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:33:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The president may have struck out in the opening statement of his first major press conference, but then he turned into Babe Ruth.

In his answers to questions, Obama improvised the Rooseveltian Fireside Chat that he should have given earlier in his prepared address.

Clip Source: www.thedailybeast.com

Barack Obama’s first press conference, like his presidency itself, got off to a bad start. But by the time it concluded, it was clear that America has a real president again.

Obama had to accomplish several goals in his opening remarks. He had to explain the nature of the present economic emergency to the American public. And he had to dispel the impression that he is a weak, Carter-like figure who in the first few weeks of his term has been easily rolled both by Republican enemies and the old bulls of the Democratic Congress.

He began with the biggest cliché of modern politics—he had met some real Americans, outside the Beltway, and learned from their wisdom. After recounting his photo-op visit to distressed Elkhart, Indiana, the new president then reeled off a list of goals for the stimulus package that sounded more like campaign rhetoric in a high-school gymnasium than a serious plan in the White House: four million jobs, college tax credits, wind turbines, and solar energy.

Detroit's Magnificent Book-Cadillac Reopens

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:11:51 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cleveland.com

Clevelanders may be curious about chef Michael Symon's latest out-of-town restaurant, but for Detroit-area residents, the recently reopened Westin Book Cadillac Hotel is the real headline. Symon's Roast, his splashy new meat-centric restaurant in the Motor City's downtown business district, made news in October. Yet in one of the heartland's most beleaguered cities, memories and hopes are made of places like the Book Cadillac.

Built during the 1920s at a cost of $14 million by Detroit's famed Book brothers, the hotel was designed in the Italian Renaissance style by architect Louis Kamper. When it opened in 1924, the 33-story structure was the tallest building in Detroit and the tallest hotel in the world. A city landmark ever since, generations of Detroiters have celebrated weddings, proms and gala events at the architectural treasure. Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy stayed there. So did Frank Sinatra and Babe Ruth.

Tags: preservation, hotel, detroit

Mom and Dad's Anniversary

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:16:20 GMT

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Clip Source: www.legacy.com

Anniversary Announcement

Don & Ruth Lindsay

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Lindsay Don and Ruth met, while in high school, at a Christmas Party in 1948. They married December 6, 1953, and celebrated their 50th Anniversary in 2003, with their 4 children, their spouses, and 9 grandchildren. They renewed their vows at the same church they were married 50 years earlier. Now that it is their 55th Anniversary, it's a quiet celebration with their children, grandchildren and great grandchild. And this surprise! Love you Sugar Babe, Don.

Published in the Kansas City Star on 12/7/2008.

It's, it's, it's... Out of the Park!

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:37:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: While record companies complain and file lawsuits against music lovers, Apple tried something different and now makes more from iPhones than computers and is up in the Wal-Mart region for music sales. Score one for trying a new model. I wonder who will be the one to do this for The Assembly Line School?

Clip Source: bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Steve Jobs’s Home Run With the iPhone

October 22, 2008, 6:28 am

Here’s another stunner: Apple’s $4.6 billion in revenue from phones is more than its sales of computers. Analysts expected Apple to sell about $4 billion in Macintosh computers and $1.6 billion in iPods in the quarter. (By unit, Apple was a little light of estimates for computers and right on target for iPods. The analysts are still crunching their numbers to turn the unit count, which Apple discloses, into revenue estimates.)

In another question, Mr. Jobs was asked whether Apple needs to make more variations of the iPhone to match the wide range of shapes, sizes, features and colors that other handset makers create to tap into every possible pocket of demand.

No, Mr. Jobs said. Again, he compared phones to computers, saying that in the future they will be differentiated more by software than hardware design.

“From everything I’ve heard,” Mr. Jobs said. “Babe Ruth only had one home run, and he kept hitting it over and over.”

Tags: iphone, music industry, elegant design, assembly lyin

Babe Ruth was cancer research guinea pig

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:39:36 GMT

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Clip Source: nbcsports.msnbc.com

The story of Babe Ruth's bittersweet farewell at Yankee Stadium has been part of sports lore for generations. Shockingly stooped and frail, the slugger came to the Bronx ballpark on June 13, 1948, to put on the pinstriped uniform a last time and hear the roar of the faithful once more.

He died only two months later, on August 16, at age 53, by most accounts of throat cancer, brought on at least in part by a well-chronicled fondness for tobacco and liquor. But that's all wrong, says a Westchester County, N.Y., dentist with a passion for baseball history. And he's trying to set the record straight.

Maloney uncovered little-known information about the experimental treatment that the doomed baseball titan agreed to take part in, the kindness Ruth showed toward medical staff during his difficult final days and the rare form of cancer he actually died from, nasopharyngeal carcinoma (it causes less than 1 percent of the cancer deaths in the U.S. today).

Tags: sports, cancer, celebrity, baseball, babe ruth, history, medical

The Slugger History

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:56:07 GMT

clipped by: Bat Guy

Clip Source: www.slugger.com

This is the story of the bat that wrote the history of the game.

In the hands of legends like Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Hank Aaron, Louisville Slugger helped create the moments that earned baseball the title of “ America’s pastime.”

Just as Louisville Slugger shaped baseball’s past, it is shaping the game’s future. With the most advanced performance technology in the hands today’s greatest players, this 120-year-old story just keeps getting better.

Coulda Woulda Shoulda

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:49:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.footballoutsiders.com

Coach: Jim Mora, New Orleans Saints
Date: October 25, 1987
Reason: Because “coulda, woulda, shoulda” ain’t good enough!
Meltdown: Mora the Elder is the Babe Ruth of meltdowns — the king of Career Value — and we knew we were in the presence of greatness from his second year in New Orleans. In 1987, the Saints lost a close game to the 49ers, falling to 3-3. Mora had this to say after the game: “The Saints ain’t good enough. We’re close, and close don’t mean s***. I’m tired of coming close. I’m pissed off right now. You bet your ass I am. I’m sick of coulda, woulda, shoulda, coming close, if only.”
Result: We’re picking this one over his later “diddly-poo” speech in New Orleans because of the positive effects. The Saints ran off a nine-game winning streak, finishing with a 12-3 record, and the first winning season in the franchise’s 20-year history. They lost to Jerry Burns’ Vikings in the wild card round of the playoffs, ensuring great quotage either way.