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Editor's note: This story was originally published July 4, 2009 on what was believed to be Chuck Tanner's 80th birthday. Chuck Tanner was born exactly 80 years ago today. It says as much on the back of his Topps baseball card and in countless reference sites, from the Pirates media guide to Baseball Almanac.
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Chris Iannetta finally showed the Rockies what they needed to see, and it was only partially reflected in his monstrous statistics. When Colorado general manager Dan O?Dowd talked Tuesday about promoting the catcher, ending his monthlong stint in the purgatory known as Triple-A, he made a quick reference to the baseball aspect of Iannetta's demotion before zoning in on the bigger issue.
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Chuck Tanner was born exactly 80 years ago today. It says as much on the back of his Topps baseball card and in countless reference sites, from the Pirates media guide to Baseball Almanac.
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COLONIAL HEIGHTS - There is an old saying that goes: Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated. The saying is certainly a reference to the sacrifice bunt and sacrifice fly, but no one appreciates the sacrifice in baseball more than the one delivered by the Optimist Club of Colonial Heights in putting put on the Boys Invitational Baseball Tournament.
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It may be a bit early to be talking about Labor Day weekend, but there are some advantages to planning ahead of time - particularly when it comes to two of the best free jazz festivals in the world. I speak of the Chicago Jazz Festival, which this year will be held Aug. 28-31, and the Detroit International Jazz Festival, which begins a day later on Aug. 29 and runs through Labor Day itself - Sept. 1. Both events are spectacular year in and year out; however, it just so happens that this year they are really, really exceptional, albeit for completely different reasons. If for no other reason, both of these festivals are worthy of mention and consideration now because in these crazy and terrible times for air travel, the two destinations just happen to be - I can't resist using a baseball...
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Question: Joe Morgan wrote an excellent book on baseball, but I could find no reference to my problem. We all know a baseball diamond is 90 feet square and that the pitching rubber is 60 feet, 6 inches from home plate. But what is the distance from third base to first base? The geometric formula of A squared plus B squared equals C squared doesn't help much -- 90 squared is 8,100, and 8,100 plus 8,100 equals 16,200. What is the square root of 16,200? I thought you might know. -- C.B., Topeka. Answer: The guys on the sports desk passed your letter along to me after determining the questionable math they used to figure their expense accounts was of little help in this case. You were on the right track but didn't go quite far enough, according to a young reporting colleague here who studie...
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HOPEWELL -- Sometimes it is good to have a gun on the baseball team. The term is normally a reference to a strong arm. Well, the Dinwiddie baseball team now has a Gunn, but his forte is hitting and that suits the Generals just fine.
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Puckett's charge Don Mattingly said Kirby Puckett was responsible for the nickname "Donnie Baseball," a reference first uttered at a Minnesota off- season banquet.
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Blue, like any student of baseball history, knows that Robinson was, because of his central role in the breaking of baseball's color barrier, the subject of innumerable abuses and death threats during his initial tour of major league ballparks. In particular, Auster's play with the indeterminacy of reference of signifier(s) to signified(s), of text(s) to meaning(s), and of action(s) to identity/ies, makes his fiction amenable to poststructuralist accounts of reading as an indeterminate and de-constructive activity.\n In discussing this fall with Quinn, the elder Peter Stillman reminds him of Humpty Dumpty, Lewis Carroll's fallen creature who represents both linguistic unity and its fall (as the Tower of Babel does elsewhere in the novel).
