Results tagged with 'major league baseball'

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Articles:

Jackie Robinson more than just a day

Published April 15, 2013

It's good that every generation gets to learn about the sacrifices Robinson made in order to be the first African-American to integrate professional baseball.

Questions abound for Braun, Brewers

Published Feb. 7, 2013

Questions abound for Ryan Braun and the Milwaukee Brewers, but it's still too early to make definitive judgments.

"Fake" baseball player arrested in Milwaukee

Published June 5, 2012

Over the last five years, a Milwaukee man named Montaous Walton has created at least two different internet personas, inventing a story about an improbable rise out of the city into the world of Major League-affiliated baseball. One of these personas was exposed in 2010. The other has led to his arrest.

Who is Montaous Walton?

Published May 10, 2012

Gotta love Bud Selig

Published May 4, 2012

It always makes me smile that the Commissioner of Baseball is not only from Milwaukee but has his office here. It's very cool. It's always great that he still hangs out at his favorite Milwaukee spots.

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Reader blogs:

Viva Jim Bouton

Thursday March 8th, 2012 - Fox Lake, IL Today is the birthday of one of my all time favorite baseball players, who also happens to be the author of one of my all time favorite books. Anyone who knows me well knows of my love for sports and for the book “Ball Four” by Jim B...

Trading Deadline

Wednesday June 15th, 2011 - St. Joseph, MI When I was a kid, June 15th had two meanings. First, it was the Major League Baseball trading deadline. That meant teams had to make whatever deals they were going to make to patch their roster holes to hopefully make the playoffs and go on t...

It's Only Money

Saturday July 11th, 2009 - Chicago, IL July 11th. “7-11“. I’m not sure if it means anything but I took it as a cosmic hint to buy two lottery tickets just to be safe. I’m sure nine zillion other idiots did the same thing so my odds are even worse than usual bu...

Sixteen Years Of Silence

Monday June 15th, 2009 - Chicago, IL When I was a kid June 15th meant two things: it was the Major League Baseball trading deadline and it was my sister Tammy’s birthday. Every year I’d wait to see what baseball players got traded and also either go see or at least call Ta...