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J.P. Arenciba: Hit 31 Home Runs in Minors Before Debut | Baseball Notebook

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JP Arenciba: Hit 31 Home Runs in Minors Before Debut. JP Arenciba who homered for the Blue Jays Saturday on his first major league pitch and then homered later in the game hit 31 home runs this year in the minors for the second most home runs in professional baseball. He hit .313 for Las Vegas in the Pacific Coast League while having an OBP of .367, slugging .658 and posting an OPS of 1.025 which leads all minor leaguers with at least 300 at bats. Arenciba was called up after John Buck the catcher this s...

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Billy Loes Dies at 80 | Baseball Notebook

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Billy Loes Dies at 80. Billy Loes former Brooklyn Dodgers hurler who appeared in the 1952, 1953 and 1955 World Series has died at the age of 80. Billy Loes who compiled a 80-63 record in 11 seasons with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles and San Francisco Giants has died at the age of 80 in a hospice in Tucson, Arizona. He had been battling diabetes for several years. He had died on July 15 but the New York Times didn’t print it till their July 27, 2010 edition. And tagged Billy Loes Dies at 80.

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Bobby Thomson Dies at 86 | Baseball Notebook

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Bobby Thomson Dies at 86. Bobby Thomson hit one of the most if not the most dramatic home runs in baseball history on October 3, 1951 when he hit a home run that turned a 4-2 defeat into a thrilling 5-4 come from behind win for the New York Giants over the Brooklyn Dodgers. Bobby Thomson the hero of the 1951 NL playoffs died Monday at the age of 86 at his home in Savannah, Georgia. The mere mention of his name brings back memories of that day in 1951 when Thomson hit the shot heard around the world.

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MLB Attendance Down 701,000 | Baseball Notebook

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MLB Attendance Down 701,000. For the first time this season since I have been tracking the MLB attendance at baseball-reference.com the attendance has declined over 700,000. Not surprisingly we haven’t heard any reports from baseball commissioner Bud Selig about how well the game of baseball is doing. Seven teams have drawn over 100,000 less fans in 2010 than in 2009 with the New York Mets topping the list with a loss of over 341,000 fans . The Toronto Blue Jays with a loss of over 273,000 fans and t...

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Roy Halladay: Hall of Famer? | Baseball Notebook

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Roy Halladay: Hall of Famer? The Philadelphia Phillies made a great move by signing Roy Halladay last offseason and he gave them one more reason to be happy about the signing with the second no-hitter in postseason history as the Phillies defeated the Cincinnati Reds 4-0 in Philadelphia last night. Even if he were to win 20 games in each of those seven seasons he would have a career win total of 309 which is unlikely to happen even for Halladay. I once saw a game in the 60’s when Whitey Ford gave u...

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Foster Brooks made a living out of pretending to be drunk, like Hal Smith who portrayed Otis Campbell on the Andy Griffith Show. This is Foster Brooks on the Dean Martin Show portraying an airline pilot who has had one drink too many to be flying an airplane. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.

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Jose Bautista: 53 Home Runs Since Sept. 5, 2009 | Baseball Notebook

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Jose Bautista: 53 Home Runs Since Sept. 5, 2009. Jose Bautista has to be the comeback player of the year in the AL after hitting 53 home runs since Sept.5,2009 and leading the majors in home runs with 43 in 2010 after never having hit more than 16 in any previous season and is one of two players in majors with over 100 runs batted in. Who would have thought that Bautista would have eight more home runs than Albert Pujols, 19 more than Ryan Howard and 22 more than Alex Rodriguez this season? His slugging ...

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Pat Venditte: Switch Pitcher | Baseball Notebook

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Pat Venditte: Switch Pitcher. Pat Venditte is a switch pitcher who is a relief pitcher for the Tampa Yankees in the Florida State League with 1-0 record and 1.73 ERA. The Yankees selected Venditte in the 20th round of the 2008 draft as their 620th overall pick. They had previously drafted him in 2007 in the 45th round as their 1,345th pick. He pitched collegiate baseball for Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. His minor league lifetime numbers are also very impressive with a 6-2 record with a 1....

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Andrew Godfrey | Baseball Notebook

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Foster Brooks made a living out of pretending to be drunk, like Hal Smith who portrayed Otis Campbell on the Andy Griffith Show. This is Foster Brooks on the Dean Martin Show portraying an airline pilot who has had one drink too many to be flying an airplane. Roy Halladay: Hall of Famer? Halladay with 169 wins in 13 major league seasons will be 34 next May and it is unlikely as of today that he will win 300 games which is the usual benchmark that insures automatic induction into the Hall of Fame. However...