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...division structures are the same as baseball??s, putting the Crimson in a division with Yale, Brown, and Dartmouth. Defending champion Princeton, last year’s runner-up Cornell, Columbia, and Penn make up the other division. At the end of the season, the winners of each division will meet in a best-of-three series to determine the league champion and winner of its NCAA berth...
...rest of baseball shouldn’t think that it can escape from the blame. Many other teams were ready to shell out tens of millions for Matsuzaka. He is just the latest and most desperate example of baseball??s free market run amok. Teams are all too willing to turn out their pockets thanks to power-agents like Boras, whose whole job is to drive a wedge between competing teams and then exploit their blood feud. A plague on both their houses...
...starter, wrote a weekly column for The Crimson. This is his 2006 fall debut.An old adage says, “It ain’t cheating if you don’t get caught.” Well, Detroit Tigers pitcher Kenny Rogers got caught and it was on baseball??s biggest stage. The latest scandal surrounding America’s pasttime emerged during the second game of the World Series on Sunday night when Rogers allegedly made use of pine tar, a sticky substance expressly prohibited of pitchers by Major League Baseball. Almost as soon...
...actually buried in a mass grave near where he was killed at Fort Wagner, South Carolina, but his engraved stone depicts a Classical sparring-match of sorts. Other, simpler tombstones mark the graves of Dorothea Dix, social activist for the mentally ill, and Bernard Malamud, author of the baseball??s classic novel “The Natural.” In addition to the on-site history lesson, Mt. Auburn boasts a renowned horticultural diversity. With over 5,500 trees of nearly 700 varieties, only the most assiduous arborist will be able to identify them...
Many fans under 40—the defensive ones, like me—tend to downplay baseball??s historical gravity. History is nice, and great, and important, but it doesn’t sell video games. I wish it did. I’d await EA Sports’ Scully ’07—after the ancient Dodgers broadcaster, Vin—just as eagerly as I do Madden ’07. Problem is, none of the other kids would play with...