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| | | |  | Ruth's uniform fetches $270,000 at Louisville Slugger Museum auction (Louisville Courier-Journal)Posted 11/14/2008 - 10:20 PM : Viewed 4689 times.
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| | | A 1938 Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, the last baseball road uniform worn by Babe Ruth, sold for $270,000.
The uniform, which was purchased by and anonymous bidder, was among nearly 900 items of sports memorabilia up for auction today at the Louisville Slugger Museum on Main Street.
Hunt Auctions, ...... | | | Ruth's uniform fetches $270,000 at Louisville Slugger Museum auction (Louisville Courier-Journal) | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | A-Turf touts its Louisville Slugger surface for baseball Posted 10/22/2008 - 5:17 PM : Viewed 12278 times.
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| | | Synthetic turf company A-Turf says it has developed a surface ideally suited for baseball and softball. By slightly modifying the rubber and sand infill ratio and fiber pile height, the A-Turf Louisville Slugger surface delivers a high performance field that matches the unique ball roll and bounce o...... | | | A-Turf touts its Louisville Slugger surface for baseball | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | Grove resident in a league of her ownPosted 10/21/2008 - 4:12 PM : Viewed 13288 times.
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| | | Rain meant Gina, who played fast-pitch softball for the Riverside Townies, couldn't tag a runner out at second, or hit a line drive past the shortstop.
So for fear of bad news, Gina hid from her home telephone in Providence, R.I.
"I would go outside so I wouldn't hear the phone ring saying t...... | | | Grove resident in a league of her own | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | Wisconsin student selected as grand-prize winner of Step Up to the Plate @ your libraryPosted 10/15/2008 - 3:53 AM : Viewed 16557 times.
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| | | Thanks to a trip to his local library, 11-year-old Oscar Youngquist is about to take another journey – this time to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith drew Youngquist’s name as the grand-prize winner of the Step Up to the Plate @ your library® program.
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| | | | | Americans pick as passions collide: politics vs. baseballPosted 10/3/2008 - 4:04 PM : Viewed 10522 times.
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| | | Two American passions collide tonight -- baseball and presidential politics -- as the playoffs and the eagerly anticipated vice presidential debate go head-to-head.
They have a lot in common, according to Northwestern professor Jerry Goldman, who helped create prezbaseball.org, which compares the...... | | | Americans pick as passions collide: politics vs. baseball | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | Critics cite the dangers of maple batsPosted 10/2/2008 - 1:40 PM : Viewed 7511 times.
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| | | It was just a normal day in June for major league umpire Brian O'Nora. Eat lunch at noon with the crew. Relax. Get to the ballpark in Kansas City at 5:45 p.m.. Walk out to the field. Play ball. Ordinary, until the shards of a broken maple bat hit him — twice.
In the second inning, Kansas City Roy...... | | | Critics cite the dangers of maple bats | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | Big-league players are into their bats big time Posted 9/29/2008 - 6:34 PM : Viewed 11582 times.
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| | | Ty Cobb once called his bat "a wondrous weapon," and the sentiment has hardly diminished through the years.
Players still treat their old hickory stick (to use a dated term; hickory hasn't been used in bat-making for decades) with respect, devotion and tender, loving care rarely bestowed upon an...... | | | Big-league players are into their bats big time | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | The Art of Baseball: Bat TalkPosted 9/24/2008 - 4:32 PM : Viewed 10296 times.
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| | | Ty Cobb once called his bat "a wondrous weapon," and the sentiment has hardly diminished over the years.
Players still treat their old hickory stick (to use a dated term; hickory hasn't been used in bat-making for decades) with respect, devotion and tender, loving care rarely bestowed upon an ina...... | | | The Art of Baseball: Bat Talk | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | My Louisville lip service fooled no one Posted 9/20/2008 - 5:52 AM : Viewed 12069 times.
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| | | If ever a city was proud to be associated with a colloquial verb, it is Louisville, Kentucky. The verb “to slug” applies pretty widely here, when you think about it. An attractive city of more than a million souls on the banks of the broad Ohio River (Indiana is on the other side), Louisville is the...... | | | My Louisville lip service fooled no one | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | Batty problem: Baseball discusses broken batsPosted 9/19/2008 - 3:29 PM : Viewed 9691 times.
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| | | Baseball will start testing bats following Tuesday's meeting of a player-management safety committee, but the sport made no decision on the contentious issue of banning maple models.
Along with conducting field and laboratory tests, the panel will consult with manufacturers and experts, and also ...... | | | Batty problem: Baseball discusses broken bats | | | | | | | | |
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