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Canseco’s return to Newark marks start of 2012 Can-Am League season
The Newark Bears and Worcester Tornadoes will open the 2012 Can-Am League season tonight with a 6:35 p.m. game at Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium in Newark. This will be the first Can-Am League game for new Bears manager Ken Oberkfell and scheduled Bears starter Michael Ness. Newark Mayor Cory Booker is scheduled to throw [...]
Worst kept secret in baseball to be revealed: Mets will host 2013 All-Star Game
Emperor for Life Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon are expected to announce today what everyone has known for quite some time: Citi Field will host the 2013 All-Star Game. The Mets have only hosted the All-Star Game once before: [...]
NJ Lawmaker wants Major League Baseball to retire Roberto Clemente’s uniform number
State Senator M. Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex County) wants Major League Baseball to retire Roberto Clemente‘s uniform number. She has sponsored a resolution that “Respectfully requests that Major League Baseball retire the number 21 in honor of the life and career of Roberto Clemente.” “Roberto Clemente was not only an outstanding major league baseball player, he [...]
And that’s why they play the game…
I did not expect the Mets to find a way to score three runs on just three hits. I did not expect Miguel Batista to pitch seven shutout innings. I did not expect Frank Francisco to get a save chance tonight. I did expect him to find a way to blow it once he did. The [...]
Some Marlins autographs as the Mets get ready to face the fish…
The New York Mets will play their first game at the Miami Marlins new ballpark tonight. Perhaps fittingly, I got a surprise package from my friend Greg yesterday containing a few things that he’d gotten signed during spring training this year. A Miami Marlins spring training program signed by Hanley Ramirez, Logan Morrison, Heath Bell [...]
How sweep it is! (and new Mets autograph collection additions)
The Mets completed a three game sweep of the Phillies in Philadelphia last night. At 18-13, the Mets are five games above the .500 mark for the first time since the summer of 2010. I love that this team doesn’t give up when they fall behind, as evidenced by their MLB-leading 11 come-from-behind victories this [...]
Valdespin beats Papelbon
Congratulations to Jordany Valdespin for getting his first major league hit… and making it count. Hopefully he will have a longer major league career than the last Mets rookie to hit a game-winning home run off of Jonathan Papelbon. Keep up with Paul’s Random Baseball Stuff through Facebook, Google+, and Twitter.
I didn’t want to see an end like this…
New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, as well as a partially torn meniscus last night while attempting to field a fly ball during batting practice. His 2012 season is likely over. With speculation that the the 42-year-old pitcher planned to retire at the end of the [...]
Baseball scoring oddities quiz
I went to the “Scoring Oddities of Baseball” program at the Cranford Community Center last night, and it was interesting. At the end of Somerset Patriots official scorer John Nolan‘s presentation, he handed out a 12-question “baseball official scorer quiz” Here are three of the questions, ranging from “easy” to “challenging” and “I had no clue” [...]
5K run/walk at Yankee Stadium to raise funds for cancer research
The Yankees will be in Toronto to play the Blue Jays on Sunday, August 12th, but Yankee Stadium will not be empty. Thousands of runners, cancer survivors and supporters will gather for the fourth annual Damon Runyon 5K at Yankee Stadium. Since 2009, the event has raised more than $1.4 million for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. [...]
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