Clearing the Bases — Junk Drawer Edition

From the junk drawer of my mind… • The Dodger DVD contest is still on; thus far one of the three sets remains unclaimed, and can still be won for answering this: Everybody remembers Bob Lemon’s decision to pinch-hit for former Dodger Tommy John in Game Six of the ’81 Series, but what other dubious …

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Clara Gottfried Jaffe (1912-2006)

This week’s Trading Deadline Extravaganza Hit List is up at Baseball Prospectus. Rather than delve into its baseball content — it’s all free there, if you care to read it — I’ll skip to the dedication at the bottom: This week’s column is dedicated to the loving memory of Clara Gottfried Jaffe (11/2/1912-8/1/2006), wife, mother, …

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Doner Than a Pot Roast in a Burning Whorehouse

My latest chat at Baseball Prospectus went two-and-a-half hours, neither my longest nor my most prolific. Frankly, given all of my travels this week (roundtrip to Boston in a day and a cross-country weekend trip looming), I was pretty cooked. It would have been my preference to reschedule. I didn’t have quite my usual joie …

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