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In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

  
 Baseball Toaster : Bronx Banter : Bronx Banter Interview: Roger Angell
Famous figure in the family of The New Yorker, Katherine White.
She was head of the fiction department, so I wound up in the fiction department myself many years later.
It was a famous travel magazine; it was a wonderful magazine that produced great writers, and artists and photographers from around the world.
bronxbanter.baseballtoaster.com /archives/160834.html   (4866 words)

  
 The Baseball Guru - JAPAN’S TOP PLAYERS by Jim Albright
He's the Excellence Plus Point choice as Japan's greatest shortstop ever, though Kazuo Matsui is closing on him, especially since Toyoda spent his last few seasons playing first base.
One can even reasonably argue he's already the best Japanese shortstop ever in view of the fact the two men who are primarily shortstops who are ahead of him both put in significant playing time at first at the end of their careers.
Jim Allen says he wasn't a special fielder as a shortstop, but was such a fielder as a second baseman.
baseballguru.com /jalbright/analysisjalbright01.html   (9958 words)

  
 Bronx Banter: Yankee Preview Wednesday: Bernie Williams and Derek Jeter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Yankee shortstop had a career year in 1999, leading the league in hits (219) and times on base (322), placing second in runs scored (134), and fourth in total bases (346).
Whether he stays at shortstop or ends up converting to another position at some point, Jeter is likely to remain a Yankee through the expiration of his contract in 2010.
Trammell, who appears to be a deserving candidate in his own right, is likely to slip outside the top ten in RCAP once Jeter and Garciaparra pass him (which could take place over the course of the next two or three years in both cases).
www.all-baseball.com /bronxbanter/archives/012058.html   (4122 words)

  
 Vintage Baseball Publications and Memorabilia
He led the American League in hits 3 of his first 4 seasons and led all shortstops in fielding his fourth season.
He was converted to the outfield in 1958 and has a career batting average of.303.
Superb condition Nr/Mt 1971 Hillerich and Bradsby "Famous Slugger" Yearbook.
www.sportsartifacts.com /publications.html   (8152 words)

  
 The Baseball Analysts: August 2003 Archives
He finished third in the MVP voting that year, went off to war, and then returned in 1946 and was fourth in the MVP voting.
Joe Sewell was a 21-year-old rookie when he replaced Ray Chapman as the Cleveland Indians shortstop in 1920 after the latter was killed by a pitched ball.
Not only is he worthy of serious consideration this year, a strong case could be made on behalf of Alex The Great winning the MVP in 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, and 2002.
baseballanalysts.com /archives/2003/08/index.php   (13340 words)

  
 Baseball Toaster : Mike's Baseball Rants : May 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
However, the show is famous for a big letdown in the season finales.
The vast majority since World War I are shortstops though it's odd that there aren't that many before that.
Harris was more famous as a stage actress, but she had just starred in Alfred Hitchcock's last film, the overlooked Family Plot.
mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com /archives/2004_05.html   (15843 words)

  
 Powells.com Interviews - Roger Angell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The players are bigger and stronger than they used to be; artificial turf is on its way out again, which is good; but you watch and you'll suddenly remember back twenty or thirty years ago seeing someone make the same play.
If you watch long enough, you can compare great shortstops or great second basemen and almost see them.
Again, I cite him to beginning writers because it never occurred to him that when he was done, if he would be famous at all, he would be most famous as a children's book writer.
www.powells.com /authors/angell.html   (4949 words)

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