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Some of the best and most interesting things I saw over the last week
I wrote Thursday about the passing of Hall of Fame Baseball writer Rick Hummel, who covered the Cardinals for more than 50 years. His St. Louis Post-Dispatch colleague Derrick Goold penned a beautiful tribute. The Commish, as he was known to all, was one of the most universally liked and respected people to ever cover the game, a sentiment expressed in a tweet from Cardinals great Adam Wainwright.
If you ever played Wii Baseball, your day, your weekend, your life may not be complete until you’ve watched the Johnson Brothers’ take on the iconic game.
Zach Buchanan of The Athletic takes readers behind the scenes on what went wrong between Madison Bumgarner and the D-Backs.
An East Carolina University pitcher was ejected from an American Athletic Conference Tournament game, forcing him to miss his scheduled start the next day, for giving a teammate a sandwich to celebrate a home run.
Umpires in a recent independent Atlantic League game between the Lancaster Barnstormers and Gastonia Honey Hunters were unclear whether or not a batter was hit by a pitch. So he proved it to them.
With the Orioles becoming the 19th team to unveil City Connect uniforms over the last 3 years, The Sporting News ranked the alternate looks from #1 to #19. The Marlins fared quite well.
Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen suggested a rule change in the name of player safety.
Finally, this isn’t baseball-related, but it’s worth watching nonetheless. How about a 3-minute, 211-shot badminton rally from Kuala Lumpur.
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My most-popular pieces this week include 2 of the most-read pieces I’ve written since starting VIEW FROM THE BLEACHERS a couple of months ago…
Instead of embarking upon a fire sale that, 6 years in, has yet to pay off, what if Bruce Sherman would have gone for it when he bought the Marlins at the end of the 2017 season.
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