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Scores On This Historic Day: April 15, 2013, The Boston Marathon Bombing
April 15, 2013: Two explosions go off near the Back Bay finish line of the Boston Marathon, held annually on Patriot's Day, the 3rd Monday in April, in commemoration of the Battle of Lexington &...
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Finally, the Yankees Give Us a Win
The 5-10 Yankees began a 2-game home Interleague series with the Atlanta Braves last night. Not exactly the kind of team against whom you expect to snap a 5-game losing streak.Jameson Taillon didn't...
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We Gotta Get Out of Last Place
Before this 2-game home series with the Atlanta Braves began, I was willing to accept a split.But after winning the 1st game, the way the 2nd game worked out feels rotten. The words "damp squib" come...
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Kick in the Complacency Wakes Torres, Germán, Yankees Up
The atmosphere around the Yankees was getting rough. A 6-11 start, anger at the manager, anger at certain players.None more so than general manager Brian Cashman's golden boy, Gleyber Torres, whose...
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April 23, 1921: The Pitcher of the Century
In 1999, baseball fans voted for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. Two of the pitchers chosen were Warren Spahn and Sandy Koufax.Koufax rarely makes public appearances, but he went to Atlanta...
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Lineup Switch Boosts Yanks vs. Tribe
Maybe getting out of New York was, as I half-jokingly suggested, just what the Yankees needed. Or maybe it was some deviating from the established lineup by Aaron Boone, at long last.Boone kept DJ...
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Face the Music: King Cole Beats Bieber
The 3rd game of this 4-game series between the Yankees and the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field was billed as a great pitching tool between Gerrit Cole and Shane Bieber. And it lived up to that...
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Nelson's Riddle Blows Chance at Yank Sweep of Tribe
Before this series between the Yankees and the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field, if you had told me the Yankees were going to take 3 out of 4, I would have gladly taken it.And when they took the...
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Scores On This Historic Day: April 27, 1994, South Africa's 1st All-Races...
April 27, 1994: The Republic of South Africa ends apartheid by holding its 1st all-races general election. Lines of people miles, and hours, long developed, stunning the world with footage. It shook...
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Matt Harvey Passes the Audition, Shuts Yankees Down
In 2015, the Yankees struggled just to make the Playoffs, and lost the American League Wild Card Game, because they only got 3 hits and didn't score.Meanwhile, across town, Matt Harvey was the ace of...
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Yankee Bats Boost Kluber, Beat O's
Going into last night's 2nd game of a 4-game series against the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards, the Yankees needed to start playing as advertised. I hate it when there's lies in advertising.Before...
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Scores On This Historic Day: April 29, 1992, The South Central Riots
April 29, 1992: Four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, all of them white, are found not guilty of assault and excessive force against a black suspect, Rodney King. The jury of 12 was...
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Now, Thats More Like It
When the New York Yankees travel to Camden Yards to play the Baltimore Orioles, last night's game with the kind of game you expect to see. Let's start with the pitching. Domingo Germán started for the...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame Steve Smith for the Edmonton Oilers Losing the...
April 30, 1963: James Stephen Smith is born in Glasgow, Scotland, and grows up in Cobourg, Ontario, about halfway between Toronto and Oshawa. By the Autumn of 1980, he was in London -- Ontario, playing...
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No Vaccine for Not Hitting
Losing is a disease, as contagious as polio. Losing is a disease, as contagious as syphilis. Losing is a disease, as contagious as the bubonic plague. Ah, but curable.-- Dr. Knobb the psychologist...
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How Long It's Been: Milwaukee Won a World Championship
April 30, 1971, 50 years ago: The Milwaukee Bucks beat the Baltimore Bullets, 118-106, at the Baltimore Civic Center, to complete a 4-game sweep, and win the NBA Championship.The Bullets had 3 future...
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Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the St. Louis Hawks for Trading Bill Russell
Along with the late Henri Richard of the Montreal Canadiens,Bill Russell is the only North American professional athletewith more championship rings than he has fingers.April 30, 1956: The NBA Draft is...
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Scores On This Historic Day: April 30, 1945, The Death of Adolf Hitler
April 30, 1945: With the Soviet Union's Red Army having reduced his "Thousand-Year Reich" from most of Europe to the size of his bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany, shoots himself in...
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Ten Runs Make Cole a Merry Old Soul
In recent times, a trip to Baltimore has been a cure for what ails the Yankee bats. This time, all they could get from a 4-game series at Camden Yards was a split.They need to get better, and fast....
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Scores On This Historic Day: May 1, 1960, The U-2 Spy-Plane Incident
Gary PowersNote: I must give credit, and say that this text is slightly adapted from Wikipedia's entry on the subject.May 1, 1960: An American U-2 spy plane is shot down by the Soviet Air Defense...
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