Fourth in a series of posts
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Significant records in sports rarely advance in a steady fashion.
Often, they are not just broken, but demolished.
Take baseball’s record for most wins in.
Jigger Statz
Mandy Brooks
Earl Webb
Riggs Stephenson
Andre Dawson
Those are the only 5 Cubs outfielders since 1903 who caught a fly ball, then threw out a runner at home to end a game.
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Over the decades, as Major League teams have gone from having 2 or 3 starting pitchers, to 4 or 5, then embraced the "opener," there have been fewer and fewer matchups of staff aces.
When I began.
During the second half of the 1913 season, the Chicago Tribune's daily sports column, "In the Wake of the News," regularly published funny, sometimes hilarious, poems that it said were written by.
It was a VIBP day Very Important BallPark.
Where to begin with the list of notables the Worcester Red Sox attracted for the home opener, the inaugural game at Polar Park?
How about Joe Torre, great player and manager, now a special assistant to the Commissioner of Baseball?
“It’s a beautiful ballpark,” he said. “I was walking in with Peter Woodfork, who works for MLB in the minor league systems, and I said this is a far cry from Eau Claire (Wisconsin) when I played there in 1960. We had a nail on the wall you’ve heard that story a million times. I mean, you couldn’t stand up straight when you got dressed. Minor league parks are so first-class now.”