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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
St. Joseph News-Press, January 18, 1912: A bill that will cause much excitement in the ranks of baseball men is to be introduced in the New York state legislature by Senator James J. Frawley…It is Senator Frawley’s plan to tax the gross receipts of baseball clubs exceeding a certain limit, the money thus collected to be turned over to the playgrounds in the leading cities and towns.
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The officials of the major league clubs have never made public the amount of their gross rceipts, expenditures and profits. There is no doubt, however, that the returns are enormous.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
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1. Jefferson Manship (Dan Lee) Posted: January 18, 2012 at 05:36 AM (#4039157)C: Mike Lieberthal
1B: Charlie Eden
2B: Eddie Moore
3B: Pinky May
SS/Manager: Chuck Cottier
LF: Brady Anderson
CF: Curt Flood
RF: Len Koenecke
SP: Scott McGregor
SP: Carl Morton
SP: Wandy Rodriguez
SP: Michael Pineda
SP: Bill Sampen
RP: Mike Fornieles
Gunning for Pinky May's job: Brett Lawrie
Not that one: Nolen Richardson
Could be the name of a cartoon cow: Frank Heifer
There's an inexplicable lack of first basemen to choose from. Heifer played 11 career games but is the closest thing to a "real" first baseman this team has. I just went ahead and used Eden at first instead, as he had a multi-season career, hit well, and made a handful of appearances at 1B.
Reds sign LHP Ron Mahay and LHP Clay Zavada
Rox sign IF Brendan Harris
RHP Byung Hyun Kim signed with the Nexen Heroes, of the Korean League. That is an awesome name.
RHP Brian Bass also signed with a Korean team.
Blue Jays release IF Mark Teahen
The surprising thing to me when I read about Kim is that he's only 33.
Yu haul: Rangers land Darvish in $60M deal | MLB.com: News
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120117&content_id=26373244&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
Rockies sign P Jaime Moyer who is literally older than the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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