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Cover to Pete Rose: An American Dilemma
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A Trip to the Library: Pete Rose: An American Dilemma

Early on in Kostya Kennedy’s book, it becomes clear that he has no desire to provide any sort of deep introspection into Pete Rose. All he has to offer is a surface-level analysis of, well, nothing. That meant something needed to be added to make the book flash in some way. A book without substance […]

Posted on February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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Winning Isn’t Everything

The end goal of every baseball team should be to win, I think that the majority of us can agree on that point. These days in Major League Baseball it doesn’t always seem like that’s what most teams are doing. Every day we are inundated with sound bites from one team or another’s front office […]

Posted on March 18, 2020March 13, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Paul Goldschmidt running the bases.
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First Base Belongs to the NL Central

The National League Central Division had the best grouping of first basemen in all of Major League Baseball in 2018. When the St. Louis Cardinals traded for Paul Goldschmidt that grouping became even better. It’s a scary thought, but heading into 2019 there isn’t another division in MLB that can touch the NL Central first […]

Posted on April 5, 2019August 26, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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