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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
A key figure in the Black Sox scandal “retires”, Washington Times, November 28, 1912: Abe Attell, former featherweight champion, last night announced his retirement from the ring after he had been badly outpointed in a fight with Oliver Kirk, of St. Louis. When the gong sounded at the end of the sixth round…[Attell] announed that he had enough, that he had given “the best that was in him,” and that he was forever through with prize fighting.
Attell fought Kirk again less than four months later. I’m sure the fight referenced above was completely on the level, because a guy like Attell would never have taken money to take a fall in his opponent’s hometown. *snicker*
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1. Neutral Milk Dotel (Dan Lee) Posted: November 28, 2012 at 07:33 AM (#4311193)C: Wes Westrum
1B: Heinie Peitz
2B: Blackie O'Rourke
3B: Matt Williams
SS: Walt Weiss
LF: Max West
CF: Nook Logan
RF: Sixto Lezcano
SP: Dave Righetti
SP: John Burkett
SP: Pedro Astacio
SP: Carlos Villanueva
SP: Ken Howell
RP: Robb Nen
Manager: Lee Fohl
Fun Names Who Aren't In The Starting Lineup: Molly Craft, Daisy Davis, Purnal Goldy, Roxey Roach
That's a bit unfair to Sixto Lezcano, who had a career OPS of .799 in the offensive dark ages of the late 70s and early 80s, leading to a career OPS+ of 124.
My first impression of Sixto Lezcano comes from one of the first Baseball Abstracts: James wrote that whenever he ran all the numbers, Jerry Remy always came out worse than he expected, and Sixto Lezcano also came out better than he expected.
zach stewart also to pit for a ptbnl.
should be a few other moves like these in advance of the non-tender deadline.
He had a career .356 OBP while batting just .217 in almost 3000 plate appearances. He had 503 base hits, and 489 bases on balls. In fact, he reached base safely more often by not getting a base hit than he did by getting a hit.
Career BA. 271, career OBP .423.
Westrum and Tenace are the only two players ever who reached base more via walk/hbp than by base hit during their careers.
I mean ... that's unusual. Did he bat 8th and get IBB'd so they could pitch to Ray Oyler?
A's acquire P Sandy Rosario from Boston for a PTBNL. They DFA OF Jermaine Mitchell.
Rangers acquire P Cory Burns for a PTBNL.
Cubs DFA P Casey Coleman
Mariners release Chone Figgins.
Yankes sign Andy Pettitte 1/$12.5
Whoa, I like how you slipped the BJ news in there with the Pettitte thing. The FA chips are finally starting to fall.
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