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Sports Central April 10, 2013 Brad Oremland	RBI, GIDP, and Clutch Hitting For decades, Runs Batted In has been among the most celebrated statistics in baseball. In particular, players with a lot of RBI are generally viewed as good clutch hitters -- hitting home runs or delivering with runners in scoring position.
AskMen.com April 6, 2013 Brett Smiley	Baseball Fans The dawn of baseball every April tends to shower fans of every team with a clean slate and hope, when in reality, the writing is on the wall: a large chunk of the league is hopeless.
AskMen.com April 5, 2013	Bob Costas Gives Props To Ludacris Bob Costas might be the last person one would expect to throw down a verse from a Ludacris song on live television. Yet that's exactly what Costas did during an interview on the MLB Network recently.
Sports Central April 2, 2013 Brad Oremland	Mike Trout/Miguel Cabrera Redux I wrote last year about Mike Trout and Miguel Cabrera and the American League Most Valuable Player Award. Most frustratingly to advocates on both sides, almost nobody changed their minds.
Sports Central April 1, 2013 Jeff Kallman	Santana, Down for the Count, Maybe Career We love to watch men with the mindsets of bulldogs on the field or on the mound. We don't always stop to think that the very thing we admire about them could be the very thing that finishes them before their time.
Sports Central March 26, 2013 Jeff Kallman	Injuries, Freak Injuries, Desperation Signings Customarily, the approach to baseball's Opening Day involves looking at last-minute roster moves, a few last tune-ups by promising rookies, intriguing new blood, and assorted veterans. This spring, it almost seems to be a crash course in emergency medicine.
Sports Central February 21, 2013 Kevin Beane	The Strangest Foods at MLB Stadia (Pt. 3) Great American Ball Park -- Here, they like to fry things. Fried bologna sandwiches, which are good. Fried kool-aid. I don't even understand this as a concept.
Sports Central February 14, 2013 Jeff Kallman	Pepper Paire-Davis, RIP: In a Peach of a League of Her Own If you saw A League of Their Own, you remember the All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League's anthem. The anthem's co-author, catcher Pepper Paire-Davis, died February 2 at 88.
Sports Central February 7, 2013	The Strangest Foods at MLB Stadia (Pt. 2) Safeco Field -- Well, of course there is sushi, it's Seattle. Other items I'm not seeing in other ballparks include paninis, bagels (didn't see these at Yankee Stadium), four different types of tortas, a salmon hoagie, and both sweet and savory crepes.
Sports Central January 28, 2013 Jeff Kallman	Stan Musial, RIP: More Than the Man "An exact opposite of [Ted] Williams," Roger Kahn (in Sport) wrote of Musial. "The perfect gentleman, the perfect sport. Never angry at draft boards, seldom spits in public, always hits with enthusiasm, smiles often.
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