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Experience is the name we give our mistakes. - Oscar Wilde
For the first time ever, both World Series combatants will have gone at least 50 years without a title, with the Giants mired in a championship drought since 1954 and the Rangers never having been to a Series in their 50-year history. This is just one of the compelling storylines that make this Series matchup one of the more interesting in quite some time; perhaps not since the Atlanta Braves and Minnesota Twins contested their historic 1991 battle have there been two teams so little known to the average baseball fan.
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In 2010, celebrations for some, chagrin for others. The Giants finally won their first World Series since leaving New York for San Francisco in 1958 and their first over all since Willie Mays’s catch in 1954 at the Polo... more »
On the one holiday weekend where thousands (or hundreds of thousands?) receive lottery tickets as gifts, the Rangers have acquired a sort of major league lottery ticket -- a supremely talented paragon of durability sabotaged by... more »
The American League MVP, his wife and three daughters woke this morning to a new Christmas tradition. Mom and Dad were to give their girls only one gift each. They would all hop in a car and head to a homeless shelter later... more »
Jeff Bagwell belongs in the Hall of Fame. Not on the 10th time on the ballot -- he belongs on the podium in Cooperstown this summer making his characteristically modest speech before Henry Aaron, Stan Musial, Willie Mays, Tom... more »
Among the 33 players (14 carry-overs and 19 first timers) on the ballot this week for enshrinement in the Baseball Hall of Fame are Mark McGwire, Benito Santiago, Jeff Bagwell and Raul Mondesi. Aside from the honor of being... more »
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