And of course baseball is still on as the Red Sox play the White Sox for what is probably their 20th meeting this season.
Of course, baseball's recent ruling class isn't yet willing to surrender, even if an Eastern Division team hasn't made the World Series since 2009.
As it is customary with pioneers and trail blazers, both men had accumulated their fair share of enemies over the course of their baseball careers.
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Baseball will go on, of course, but for Clemens, the tough part is just beginning.
Little League isn't the only youth baseball game in town, of course.
Of course, this is not baseball but one cannot ever take ego out of the equation when it comes to managing a company and it will not go unnoticed that if BHP is frustrated in its approach for Potash Corp. it will be the third corporate takeover failure to be chalked up by CEO Marius Kloppers since he assumed the role in 2007.
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Ruth of course changed the entire game of baseball and has the added carrot of being one of the best pitchers of all-time before he focused on hitting.
Here's a baseball announcer saying they saw Clemens at a golf course the day he was suppose to be at Conseco's.
Over the course of the nearly-complete 2010 baseball season, this column has offered the same sort of counsel to those managing a fantasy baseball team (or ten).
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Which, of course, is the purpose of a baseball bat.
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Of course, publicly funded sports stadiums are nothing new to baseball.
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The party plans include five days of fanfare, including All-Star players parading along 42nd Street on a massive red carpet, player appearances and baseball clinics at the Javits Center convention facility, and, of course, the annual home run derby at Citi Field.
It did not have a baseball card or a sneaker campaign or a restaurant. (Of course it did have a parody Twitter account.) It played in no old-timers games, punched no paparazzi and never got caught leaving a nightclub at 4 a.m.
In baseball, weird statistical quirks have a way of evening themselves out over the course of a season.
Bonds, of course, is controversial because he has been linked to the steroids epidemic in baseball.
Of course, replays of classic football and basketball games will probably outdraw live volleyball, baseball, or field hockey contests.
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It is the only charity event at the fabled course, and raises money for a horrific disease uniquely associated with the sport (as with baseball).
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Now, of course, there are fundamental differences between using performance-enhancing drugs and playing in pre-integration baseball.
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