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Two GIFs: Celebrating the 1984 Padres-Braves Brawl
Over at the Home for All Baseball Fans, I briefly celebrated the 28th anniversary of the greatest donnybrook of them all — one in which crimson masks surely abounded. The fact is that sometimes...
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Lover, Not Fighter: Dennis Martinez
One night in 1977, Dennis Martinez was confronted by a decision: fight or go make love somewhere … When faced with an onrushing and plainly nettled George Scott, a gentleman scampers. “A hasty retreat...
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Mo Vaughn Will Absolutely Take Out the Trash
When it comes to fighting his own battles, above-it-all Aaron Sele can scarcely be bothered. If he happens to prod and poke George Bell to the point of brandishing soup-bones, then, well, perhaps...
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Classic F__king Brawls: Armando Benitez vs. Everybody
Back in May of 1998, when this unassailable act of prophecy was likely being written, The Orioles and Yankees decided that soup-bones and not bats, balls and gloves would be the determinative...
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Classic F___ing Brawls: The Soup-Bones of Dave Stewart
Major-league purveyor of street justice Dave Stewart knows that it’s not nice to wallop one’s elder with the implement of destruction known as Dave Stewart’s igneous right hand, but when said elder...
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Classic F__king Brawls: A Leisured McGraw-Era Beating
The reader might absorb what follows and then cavil, “Sir, that wasn’t a brawl at all!” But the foul-smelling reader would be wrong about that. Bear assaulted witness: As you may have surmised, these...
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Planning for Your Future, with Kyle Farnsworth
“Hi, I’m Kyle Farnsworth. You probably know me as a longtime major-league reliever with the Cubs, Rays, Yankees, and other teams. Baseball is great, but my real passion is helping people plan for...
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