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Loading ...Rickey Henderson Should be the First Unanimous Hall of Famer (Athletics Nation: Front Page Posts)
Posted October 7, 2008 at 4:00 amEvery year, members of the Baseball Writers Association submit their ballots to cast votes for new inductees into baseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. And so far, after decades of voting, no player has entered the hall with unanimous support.
It takes 75% approval to make it in, and so far, the record is Tom Seaver, who was named on 425 of 430 ballots, …
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...THIS WEEK IN BAY AREA BASEBALL HISTORY (SFGate Sports: Oakland A's)
Posted September 21, 2008 at 12:00 amA weekly look back during this anniversary season for the local nines: the 50th anniversary of the Giants in San Francisco and the 40th anniversary of the A’s in Oakland: - Giants (Sept. 23, 2006): Barry Bonds goes deep off Milwaukee’s Chris Capuano and…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Inelastic demand (new A's ballpark)
Posted August 28, 2008 at 8:18 pmIn Part II of the AN/Wolff interview, out popped the most curious exchange (emphasis mine):Blez: I’m going to get to the tarp and the Coliseum a little later, but how do you sell a team that is in rebuilding mode to a market that at times can be ambivalent? The Coliseum wasn’t even selling out when the A’s …
Tags: Barry Bonds, World Series (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Lewis Wolff Athletics Nation Interview: Part II (Athletics Nation: Front Page Posts)
Posted August 26, 2008 at 7:00 amYesterday was Part I of the Athletics Nation exclusive interview with A’s managing general partner Lewis Wolff. Today is Part II.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Lewis Wolff Athletics Nation Interview: Part I (Athletics Nation: Front Page Posts)
Posted August 25, 2008 at 7:00 amLewis Wolff, the managing general partner of the Oakland Athletics, was kind enough to sit down and do an interview with me last week. The interview is long and pretty much covers all aspects of your team. I want to just publicly thank him for giving me nearly two hours of his time and blatant honesty.
So rather than comment more on it, I’ll just let …
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Numbers Game/Poll (SFGate Sports: Oakland A's)
Posted August 23, 2008 at 5:50 pmNUMBERS GAME 0-for-14 Batters with the bases loaded off Boston’s Daisuke Matsuzaka. 13.8 Adam Dunn’s average number of at-bats for every home run. He has the fifth best homers-to-at-bats ratio in history, following Mark McGwire, Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds and Jim…
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Posted August 11, 2008 at 4:49 pmYou think steroid king Barry Bonds is a cancer to the sport? He’s got nothing on Zog Larson, who may be in a major league uniform sooner than you think.
Tags: Barry Bonds (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Wrap: Game 117 - Tigers 6, A’s 1 (Athletics Nation: Front Page Posts)
Posted August 10, 2008 at 1:18 pmGreg Smith now has a cumulative 2008 record of 5-11. I would venture to say that, in general, he probably deserves at least 3 more wins and 3 fewer losses. However, he certainly deserves being hung with the loss for today’s game. Greg just couldn’t find the strikezone consistently, or really, at all today en route to regressing quite a bit from his recent progress, …
Tags: Barry Bonds, Emil Brown, Greg Smith, Huston Street (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Numbers game (SFGate Sports: Oakland A's)
Posted August 3, 2008 at 12:07 am4: Hits for Ivan Rodriguez in four at-bats in his final home game as a Tiger. 5: Walks in one game for Kansas City’s Alex Gordon, who became the first player since Barry Bonds in 2004 to draw five walks and not score a run. 8: Consecutive Angels wins over the…
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Manny’s Boston exit conjured images of Bonds (SFGate Sports: Oakland A's)
Posted August 2, 2008 at 12:00 amIt would seem the party is now officially advancing without Barry Bonds, and that’s a shame. In a trading-deadline frenzy built around entertainment value, Bonds would be the perfect choice for some desperate team. The Dodgers picked up Manny Ramirez for two…