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	ESPN.com: MLB Playoffs - The Curse of the Balboni
		Balboni's career began as a highly-regarded minor-league slugger in the Yankees organization, but after just 200 at-bats in pinstripes, the Yankees traded him to Kansas City after the 1983 season.
		Balboni was surely there when Kirk Gibson, who wisely led the Dodgers with just 25 homers, hit a homer that you might remember.
		But Balboni is alive and well, and we're sure he's having a blast wreaking havoc on those teams that dare to challenge him.
	espn.go.com /mlb/playoffs2000/2000/1025/838203.html (2548 words)

	Steve Balboni Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Balboni was 24 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 22, 1981, with the New York Yankees, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page.
		S teve Balboni's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Steve Balboni baseball statistics page.
		B aseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive player registry for Steve Balboni which includes his biographical data, year-by-year statistics, career totals, and miscellaneous items-of-interest.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=balbost01 (320 words)

	The replay doesn’t lie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The situation would've called for Balboni to sacrifice but instead, he was told to swing away -- exactly what he would've done had Orta not been safe at first.
		Balboni swung at the first pitch and popped it up in foul territory over on the first base side.
		Balboni wasn't out, and a couple of pitches later he lined into left field.
	www.tvbarn.com /archives/001916.html (484 words)

	The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News - 23-Jul-05 - Sports30 Balboni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He wasn’t a magician by any stretch of the imagination, but one thing Steve Balboni could do was make a baseball disappear.
		Playing in the “Show-Me” state of Missouri, Balboni showed the Yankees and everyone in the baseball world that he could produce on the Major League level if given the chance over a 162-game schedule.
		In a 1993 interview, Balboni said “from the time I was a little boy, it was a dream of mine to make the big leagues.
	www.newhampshireprimary.com /pages/balboni.htm (380 words)

	CJOnline.com - The Topeka Capital-Journal
		George Brett was Steve Balboni, who was 0 for 11 for the Toronto series when he came to the plate with two out and two on in the eighth of the tie game.
		Balboni didn't hit a home run, but a pop fly single in front of Lloyd Moseby in center produced the winning run.
		Balboni was not optimistic that that blooper might warm up his bat.
	www.cjonline.com /royals/brett/101285col.shtml (763 words)

	the Phat Phree -Sports
		You see, Steve was a mediocre player at best, and yet he has been forced to take money from lesser ballplayers under the guise of instruction to maintain his family's modest lifestyle.
		Balboni is described in the baseball library’s online home as “a free-swinging right-handed power hitter with a barrel chest and a mustachioed face”.
		Balboni tied for the league lead in errors by a first baseman in 1984, and led all first baseman in errors in 1986.
	www.thephatphree.com /features.asp?StoryID=665&SectionID=2&LayoutType=1&StoryMonth=5&StoryYear=2005 (1732 words)

	Balboni Camp a success in first year at Memorial
		In its first year of existence, The Steve Balboni Camp had over 20 youngsters in attendance and the group was instructed solely by former MLB players.
		Balboni, who was a member of the 1985 Royal team which won the World Series and holds the single season Kansas City home run record with 36 dingers, was the camp's main attraction.
		Balboni, who also played for the Yankees during his 12-year Major League career, pitched batting practice to the campers and gave them advice on their swings.
	www.localsource.com /articles/2005/07/06/spectator_leader/sports/sports_columns/doc42cc06ffb583a751223507.txt (511 words)

	Steve Balboni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		New York Yankee Steve Balboni, in offering private hitting lessons and classes to the public, as well as other exciting ventures in the near future.
		Steve Balboni will be conducting a youth baseball camp in Linden, NJ.
		Steve will also be happy to take a picture with you, so be sure to bring your camera.
	www.kjmpromotions.com /balboni.html (275 words)

	FPOTM - Steve Balboni
		Balboni was a massive, lumpy, pasty, balloon-headed shmoo-ish guy who could probably STILL get work as a henchman on The Soprano's.
		Anyway, this Balboni jerk-around soon got the infamous name of The Columbus Shuttle and earned the Yankees quite a few laughs of derision and completely set Balboni's career back a few years, but on the bright side, I got more Balboni to watch.
		Oh, sure, it was good to see Balboni get the chance to put together a few nice years in the bigs and ensuing Clippers like Hensley Muelens and Kevin Maas were fun in their own right for varying reasons, but after Balboni left, minor league baseball just wasn't as enjoyable.
	www.veteranpresence.com /FPOTM/Balboni.html (1471 words)

	Nashville Sounds
		The Nashville Sounds will host their fourth bobblehead giveaway of the 2003 season when Steve Balboni dolls are distributed to the first 2,000 fans entering Greer Stadium this Friday, August 22, for the team’s 7:00 p.m.
		Balboni, who earned the nickname “Bye-Bye” because of his prodigious power that frequently sent balls bounding onto Chestnut Street over the right-field wall at Greer Stadium, spent one year (1980) in Nashville, when the Sounds were the New York Yankees’ Double-A affiliate.
		Balboni — who played for five major-league teams before retiring in 1993 — broke into the majors with the Yankees in 1981, appearing in just four games.
	www.nashvillesounds.com /news/pressrelease.asp?newsId=795 (419 words)

	Steve Balboni \| BaseballLibrary.com
		After three largely unsuccessful trial runs with the Yankees in the early 80's, he was acquired by the Royals to replace Willie Aikens and averaged nearly 30 homers over the next four seasons, reaching a high of 36 with Kansas City's 1985 World Championship club.
		Balboni led league first basemen in errors in 1986 and tied for the lead in 1984, and served primarily as a DH after back trouble further reduced his mobility.
		He followed that performance up with 17 circuit blasts in just 266 at-bats the next year, but a sub-.200 batting average ensured that 1990 would be his last hurrah.
	baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/B/Balboni_Steve.stm (425 words)

	The Connecticut Post Online - Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		NEW YORK — As a minor league coach and manager, Steve Balboni was a proponent of having aluminum bats banned at the high school and college levels.
		Balboni had been entrusted with too many players in the Royals and Expos farm systems who struggled while learning to use a wooden bat.
		Balboni will take his message to the Yogi Berra Museum on Monday night, where he'll be a guest on a WFAN radio show dedicated to the topic.
	www.connpost.com /sports/ci_2850190 (574 words)

	Jim Proffit - My Life in Strat Baseball (part3)
		The photos were took at Steve Ennis house, where his room was a baseball museum.
		During the 1985 season I had the current hitting coach for the Wizards, Steve Balboni.
		Balboni went 6-6 with 6 runs, one single, double and four homeruns, 19 total bases and 13 RBIS.
	www.rsbl.org /notes%20jp%20strat3.htm (462 words)

	Smerboli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They shared the same plethora of body hair, had beefy forearms, sloping criminal brows, and after even closer inspection I realized that they also both loved trying to run over prostitutes in their cars because "they like to see them try and run in their tight dresses and high heels" (By a Nose p 23).
		Both Smerlas and Balboni even were born in the same year 1957, and are the same height 6' 3" (those facts are actually true).
		The weights are different (Balboni was a slim 225 and Smerlas a hefty 270) but any good athlete can fluctuate his weight at will.
	www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /users/01/ihuntin/balboni.html (464 words)

	Around The Horn » Blog Archive » The Worst Yankee Team
		Steve Sax 2B (who made the All Star team wound up with a.260 average, 43 stolen bases), Randy Velarde,.210 average, was at third base a lot.
		There was also Steve (17 homers but only a.192 batting average) “Bye Bye” Balboni, Matt Nokes, Rick Cerone, Mike Blowers, Deion Sanders, Hensley Meulens, Claudell Washington, Wayne Tolleson, Luis Polonia and Jim Walewander.
		Steve Adkins made his debut on September 12, 1990.
	www.around-the-horn.com /?p=42 (1065 words)

	pitch.com \| Culture \| Shooting Blanks \| 2002-05-02
		Steve Balboni hit 36 homers that season, a number not topped by any Royal since.
		Balboni, 45, is now batting coach for the Double-A New Haven Ravens.
		I think it's one of the toughest home-run parks in the American League." Balboni also points to the cool weather at the start and end of the season in Kansas City.
	www.pitch.com /issues/2002-05-02/hall.html (587 words)

	Pat Garrity's Columns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Steve Balboni has made a living in baseball for 25 years, but you couldn't pay him to go through another month like the last.
		The pitchers were blinding, the batters were resourceful and the former major-league slugger the media dubbed "Bye-Bye" was beginning to think this managing thing wasn't such a bad gig after all.
		They're good kids, and I really want to help them," Balboni said, looking on as a few of his players took their cuts in the batting cage behind Lapointe Fieldhouse.
	www.burlingtonfreepress.com /Columnists/Pat/0725045048.htm (659 words)

	Strikethree.com Baseball News, Analysis, and Commentary
		Perhaps most interesting for a baseball geek such as myself is that with the Diamondbacks winning the series, a pair of baseball's greatest curses -- neither of which compare with that of the Bambino, of course, but bear with me -- have come to an improbable end.
		The first is the Curse of Balboni, which was so eloquently explained by Rany Jazayerli over at Baseball Prospectus earlier this post-season.
		Basically, since the Kansas City Royals and Steve Balboni won the World Series in 1985 with Balboni hitting 36 homers during the regular season, no team with a slugger who hit more than 35 homers has won the World Series.
	www.strikethree.com /01/11/06/jason.shtml (1307 words)

	CJOnline.com - The Topeka Capital-Journal
		Jim Clancy, the third Blue Jay pitcher and the loser, walked left-handed hitting Pat Sheridan to face Steve Balboni, who despite his 36 home runs in 1985 had been hitless in his last 16 playoff at bats, including 11 against the Blue Jays.
		Balboni blooped a single into shallow center between three Blue Jays for the game-winning hit on a 2-0 pitch.
		His two homers brought his career total to eight, tying Steve Garvey, while his four runs scored in a game matched a record held by four others.
	www.cjonline.com /royals/brett/101285.shtml (1045 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Balboni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Daniel Balboni of Narragansett, RI, formerly of Framingham, announce the engagement of their daughter, Rachel Ann Balboni, to Sean...
		Michael Balboni, R-Nassau, who is chairman of the Senate's Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs, said last week he was shocked to...
		Plymouth resident Paul Balboni, formerly the Duxbury operations superintendent, was hired for the same job here, and tree superintendent Ted Bubbins became the...
	www.nametraq.org /Jan04/B/Balboni.shtml (937 words)

	Baseball Prospectus - The Curse Lives
		To those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, and for those who do but would like a refresher, I recommend you read the article that broke the story.
		The abridged version is this: in 1985, Steve Balboni hit 36 home runs for the Kansas City Royals, who won the World Championship.
		Their reward for appeasing the Balboni was an 11-2 record in the postseason on their way to an easy title.
	www.baseballprospectus.com /article.php?articleid=1249&mode=print&nocache=1111248275 (1132 words)

	The Annotated This Day in Baseball History
		If Steve Balboni could do nothing else, he could hit the long ball.
		Unfortunately for Steve, he could do nothing else.
		Steve played parts of eleventh majors seasons however, because he hit home runs at a pace comparable to Aaron and Mays.
	thisdaybaseball.blogspot.com /2005/01/january-16th-1957-steve-balboni-born.html (142 words)

	The Sporting News: Baseball History of the World Series
		Steve Balboni then lifted a catchable popup near the first-base dugout, but Clark inexplicably failed to make the play.
		Hal McRae then went to the plate as a pinch-hitter for Buddy Biancalana and, after Cardinals catcher Darrell Porter committed a passed ball that advanced runners to second and third, he was given an intentional walk.
		Motley blasted a two-run homer off Tudor in the second inning, Balboni delivered a two-run single in the Royals' three-run third and Smith bashed a two-run double in a six-run fifth during which Herzog and Cardinals pitcher Andujar -- incensed by the umpiring -- were ejected in a stormy and disturbing scene.
	www.sportingnews.com /archives/worldseries/1985.html (1043 words)

	CJOnline.com - The Topeka Capital-Journal
		There was nothing for him to do but buy time as Balboni ambled his way from first to third as Motley forced three throws.
		Balboni made it to third, but no further as Jackson, the first Royals' pitcher to bat since Mark Littell on May 21, 1977, struck out.
		On a two-strike pitch, Balboni lofted a foul down the left-field line that Pendleton caught while running out.
	www.cjonline.com /royals/worldseries/1985/game1_1985.shtml (887 words)

	WorldSeries.com News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Besides that, Arizona became the first team since 1985 to win it all with a player who hit more than 35 homers in the regular season.
		(Steve Balboni, who hit 36 homers for the '85 Royals, was the last man to win a ring after topping 35.) Gonzalez not only topped Balboni's 36, he shattered it with 57 blasts.
		So when Gonzalez came to the plate with one out in the bottom of the ninth, you just knew he was going to fail.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/ws/news/ws_news_story_bb_perspectives.jsp?article=1152001-0159 (690 words)

	Does anyone remember this guy?? - Fantasy Baseball Cafe 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His avatar is a signed baseball call of Balboni's, it looks like an '89 Fleer.
		Steve "Bye Bye" Balboni...free swinger from the right side, could hit it a mile.
		Balboni is the only guy to be named MVP of a minor league in 3 decades--70s, 80s and 90s.
	www.fantasybaseballcafe.com /forums/viewtopic.php?t=60910 (609 words)

	George Brett \| The BASEBALL Page
		Also on this team where Lou Piniella, Steve Busby, and Al Fitzmorris who had already proved valuable but would leave in the ensuing years.
		Steve Balboni homered in the fourth and in the fifth Brett hit a solo shot to close the KC scoring.
		Balboni followed with a single that scored Brett with the tying run.
	www.thebaseballpage.com /past/pp/brettgeorge (6375 words)

	News \| Congressman Steve Israel (D-NY) \| Official Website
		Mineola, NY (08/05/04)— Today U.S. Representatives Steve Israel (D-Huntington), Ben Chandler (D-Kentucky) and State Senator Michael Balboni (R-East Williston) announced a new plan to help small businesses tap into homeland security dollars.
		Israel, Chandler and Senator Balboni proposed extending funding to HSARPA, to establish a peer reviewed process for distributing homeland security funding to innovative new programs.
		Under their proposal, a small staff of experts would review grant proposals, much like the National Science Foundation is able to invest in various avenues of research, unencumbered by direct restrictions from political appointees or Congress, an adequately funded HSARPA office would provide funding for promising new homeland security technologies.
	www.house.gov /israel/news/080504-homelandsecurity.htm (465 words)

	Steve Balboni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Balboni, who played in the 1985 World Series with the Royals, displayed power as a Yankees, twice hitting for close to 20 home runs a year.
		These game used road pants were issued to Balboni for the 1990 season.
		The inside of the waistband contains his name as well as the year of use and his inseam.
	www.steinersports.com /stevebalboni.html (117 words)

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