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While most baseball fans get extremely excited when their team starts an inning with two runners on base, if you’re an A’s fan you have dealt with that all to familiar heart break when that hope is deferred.

Proverbs says, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick” and no one can legitimize that statement more than Art Howe and many A’s fans, as the A’s offense continues to struggle with what I call the “R.I.S.P. (Runners in Scoring Position) Blues.” [Read more →]

By Amaury Pi-Gonzalez

It was a warm night in San Francisco, something that will make Mark Twain

very itchy. . It was exactly at 9:25 PM PDT

when #25 came to the plate in the

bottom of the sixth inning against young

righthander Kip Wells. Bonds used his

maple bat…the count was 2 balls and

1 strike, then…. [Read more →]

ML: Marty Lurie here with Todd Helton on the Major League Baseball Players Association interview show, and this is brought to us by the Players’ Trust for Children and Volunteers of America, two great organizations. If you have some time, call Volunteers of America. Todd Helton’s our guest today. Todd, the fans ask questions of you, as you’re having another tremendous season. Let’s go right to the questions. Ashley McCormick asks, “How’s your back? I saw you missed a few games before the break in.” She’s concerned about you. [Read more →]

George W. Case, Jr., former major league basestealing champion took 8mm COLOR home movies during his major league baseball career. This rare look at life in the big leagues features behind the scenes footage of major league baseball during the “war years.”

Please click “Read More” and find out how to obtain a copy of this wonderful video (Marty Lurie)
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While the hot pennant races and struggling labor talks have taken the front seat of the baseball talk these days, the reality of steroid induced players will never leave.

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By Amaury Pi-González

The Athletics have two league MVP

candidates this year, one is Barry Zito

who is signed and secured by Oakland,

the other one plays everyday; Miguel

Tejada and he is not signed and secured

for the future here.

(Note) The best pitchers win the Cy Young

Award, therefore there is no doubt Tejada

will be the MVP of the A’S and even maybe

of the American League since Zito is a pitcher. [Read more →]

As we have witnessed the fact that the A’s are just not playing really good baseball these last two weeks, there is some room for optimism. While within the last two weeks the A’s pitching has been mediocre at best, the offense under-achieving, and defense a disappointment, you can’t be hopeless when you have the raw pitching potential the A’s have. While the hitting is scuffling, you don’t have to score tons of runs to win a game pitched by Mulder, Hudson or Zito–just a few. [Read more →]

That guy from Easton baseball is a plain idiot. My amateur baseball league has just switched from aluminum to wood because the out-of-control scoring and the danger to pitchers and fielder. This guy obviously has not played baseball every or he would know that lousey hitters become much better with a lighter, stronger aluminum bat that clearly has a bigger sweet spot and more pop. The switch to wood bats has brought scores down and only one person has been injured from a batted ball and that was a broke finger. Last year an infielder received a concussion, dental work, and dozens of stitches to his face off a ball hit by a smaller player. [Read more →]

Fans click on to This Day In Baseball History with Jamie Moyer. Each day I will bring you a story about a significant event that occurred on the day. What makes these shows special is the guest I interview was there to witness the moment. See you again with the Daily Dish when I return from Cooperstown on July 31st. [Read more →]

Fans click on to This Day In Baseball History with Art Levy. Each day I will bring you a story about a significant event that occurred on the day. What makes these shows special is the guest I interview was there to witness the moment. See you again with the Daily Dish when I return from Cooperstown on July 31st. [Read more →]