There was a lot of chatter and consternation over the Marlins-Mets game at New York on Sept. 28.
The Marlins scored twice in the top of the ninth to take a 2-1 lead, then heavy rain halted play.
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The Schulte Poems: May 2, 1910 By JohnW53 on May 2, 2021, 6:53am CDT +
During the 1910 season, the Chicago Tribune regularly published funny, sometimes hilarious, poems that it said were written by Frank Schulte, the Cubs colorful, hard-hitting, lefty-swinging right fielder.
The poems actually were written by Ring Lardner, destined to become one of the great humorists of the early 20th Century, who was assigned by the paper to cover the Cubs that season.
This entry appeared 111 years ago today:
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Tho at times it looked real tight,
The way to win, I tell you now,
Is hit the ball right on the brow.
Hit it hard, don t hit it faint,