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December 22, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff
In April 1960, the Detroit Tigers traded Harvey Kuenn to the Cleveland Indians for Rocky Colavito. It was a blockbuster deal involving the reigning American League batting champion (Kuenn) and the reigning American League home run king (Colavito). The Indians soon developed a case of buyer’s remorse. Colavito proved to be (and already had been) a much more valuable player than Kuenn. He had also been a fan favorite in
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October 15, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff
We complete our selection of all-time squads for this year’s Championship Series teams with the Detroit Tigers. We have already selected squads for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, and St. Louis Cardinals. The Tigers won the AL pennant in 1907-09, but failed to win the World Series during that stretch. Since then, they have won back-to-back pennants only once (1934-35) under player-manager Mickey Cochrane. This year they are
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July 9, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff
On July 9. 1963, the National League defeated the American League 5-3 in the all-star game, played in Cleveland. It was the only all-star game played that year, Major League Baseball having mercifully ended its four year practice of putting on two per-year. The NL’s victory ushered in a period in which the Senior Circuit won 19 of 20 all-star games. And with the New York Yankees beginning their decline,
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June 11, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff
On June 11, 1963, relievers Dick Radatz and Terry Fox dueled for more than seven innings in a game between the Boston Red Soc and the Detroit Tigers. Boston eventually prevailed 7-3 in 15 innings. Radatz and Fox were two of the very best relief pitchers in baseball. Radatz was known as the Monster (Detroit baseball writer Joe Falls quipped that “the Red Sox don’t warm him up, they assembled
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September 5, 2011 — Scott Johnson
A long-time reader provides this report on the third and final game of the 1961 Labor Day Weekend series between the Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees. The Cincinnati Reds didn’t play on Sunday September 3, 1961, so their manager, Fred Hutchinson, took the train from Philadelphia to New York to scout his two potential World Series opponents. If the Detroit Tigers didn’t salvage the final game of their
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September 2, 2011 — Scott Johnson
From a long-time reader, we received this update on the 1961 baseball season. Although the issue is controversial (and a good subject for a future post), the 1961 New York Yankees are generally considered one of baseball’s all-time greatest teams. So it may surprise some to learn that, when play began on September 1, 1961, the Yankees found themselves only a game-and-a-half ahead of the visiting Detroit Tigers. New York’s record stood
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July 31, 2011 — Scott Johnson
A long-time reader filed this dispatch from the 1961 baseball season: On July 31, 1961, at Fenway Park, baseball held the second of its two All Star games that year. After nine innings, the game was tied 1-1, and ended due to rain. The American League scored its run in the first inning on a home run by Rocky Colavito off of Bob Purkey. The Nationals tied it in the
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January 9, 2011 — Paul Mirengoff
Last week, Bert Blyleven and Roberto Alomar were voted into baseball’s Hall of Fame. I consider both to be legitimate, albeit second-tier, Hall of Famers. The way I see the Hall, anyone in the top ten all time at his position deserves to be selected. We’re talking, after all, about 100 plus years of modern baseball history. For starting pitchers, by the same reasoning, I think anyone in the top
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September 9, 2010 — Paul Mirengoff
According to Dave Weigel, Sarah Palin has endorsed Christine O’Donnell in the Delaware primary. Apparently, she did so on Sean Hannity’s radio program. Delaware may or may not be Palin country. However, the endorsement figures to improve O’Donnell’s chances of capturing the nomination. It therefore also figures to improve the chances that the Dems will hold a seat they had all but written off in the expectation that Mike Castle
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March 24, 2010 — John Hinderaker
Today’s big news story, along with the epic debate on health care taking place in the Senate, is the Democrats’ claim that some of their Congressmen have been threatened with violence after voting for the government’s takeover of health care. Steny Hoyer claims that more than ten House members “have reported incidents of threats or other forms of harassment.” He also admits that figure is “just an estimate,” which I
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March 6, 2010 — John Hinderaker
Paul Krugman, the hyper-partisan columnist for the New York Times, must have been a competent economist at one time. But those days are so far in the past that even Krugman apparently can no longer remember them. James Taranto documents the extent of Krugman’s amnesia: Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman takes note in his New York Times column of what he calls “the incredible gap that has opened up between
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March 4, 2010 — Scott Johnson
Today’s Washington Examiner editorial likens the Democrats’ final assault on the health care system to Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg: “a horrendous, bloody carnage that could have been avoided, had not their commander, Gen. Robert E. Lee, been so determined to do it his way — a massed frontal assault against a nearly impregnable position.” Is the Republicans’ position “nearly impregnable”? It has public opinion on its side. Opposition to Obamacare
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July 8, 2008 — Paul Mirengoff
The 1958 Major League All Star game was played on July 8 at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. The American Leage came from behind to win 4-3. The hero was 24 year-old lefthander Billy O’Dell of the Orioles. O’Dell pitched three perfect innings of relief to close out the game and get the save. Early Wynn pitched a perfect 6th inning and got the win. In the 1957 All Star game,
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August 6, 2007 — Paul Mirengoff
My post on the Senate FISA vote erroneously claimed that a disproportionate number of Democrats did not vote on the legislation. Actually, the only Democrats who didn’t vote (not counting Sen. Johnson who remains unable to participate) were Senators Boxer, Dorgan, Harkin, and Murray. The non-voting Republicans were Senators Alexander, Bunning, Gregg, Lott, Lugar, and McCain. Every Republican who did participate voted in favor of the amendments to FISA. They
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July 10, 2007 — Paul Mirengoff
Baseball’s All Star game is today. Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the first All Star game I experienced (via radio). In that game, a right-hander pitching in his first full season started for the American League. He pitched three perfect innings and was the winning victory in a rare (for that era) American League victory. The right-hander was Jim Bunning of the Detroit Tigers, who now represents Kentucky in
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June 28, 2007 — Paul Mirengoff
In the end, there were only 46 votes for cloture, with 53 against and Senator Johnson unable to vote. It seems very likely that there were Senators who were prepared to vote for cloture, but decided not to once it became clear that the supporters lacked 60 votes. No point in taking such a politically risky vote in a lost cause. Anyway, the Republicans who voted for cloture were: Bennett,
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November 16, 2005 — Paul Mirengoff
Here is the list of the 13 Republican Senators who voted against the “cut-and-run light” resolution passed by the Senate yesterday (actually that label is too strong, but it felt good using it): Bunning, Burr, Chambliss, Coburn, DeMint, Graham, Inhofe, Isakson, Kyl, McCain, Sessions, Thune, and Vitter. Notice that the only northerner on the list is John Thune.
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