Category Archives: Baseball

Study Says Brain Trauma Can Mimic A.L.S.

A peer-reviewed paper to be published Wednesday in a leading journal of neuropathology, however, suggests that the demise of athletes like Gehrig and soldiers given a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, might have been … Continue reading

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Yankees Class… No Peer (via Joe D’s Yankees)

No PA announcement and roses at home plate for the Boss and Bob Sheppard. … Read More via Joe D’s Yankees

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Five Players Who Outranked The Yankees’ Captain, If Only Briefly

A really good article by one of my favorite Yankees beat writers, Tyler Kepner. It talks about the five players taken before the Captain in the 1992 draft. It amazes me how I still hear to this day, usually from … Continue reading

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A Pattern of Sibling Risk-Taking In The Major Leagues

An interesting article that explores birth order behaviors, in this case, risk-taking behaviors. In the current issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review, Frank J. Sulloway and Richard L. Zweigenhaft went digging for evidence of siblings behaving differently in the vast … Continue reading

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