Reconsidering O’Malley at 100

Thursday was the 100th anniversary of one of the titans of baseball, former Dodger owner Walter O’Malley. The popular perception of O’Malley as the robber baron who stole baseball from Brooklyn still endures, a topic that L.A. Times columnist Bill Plaschke investigates. Plaschke begins by noting that O’Malley’s fingerprints are all over the game today: …

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Another Theory Shot to Hell

So much for the theory about the Yankees being well-rested compared to the haggard Red Sox entering the American League Championship Series. Yankee starter Mike Mussina looked more rusted than rested from seven days off, and the Yank bats were baffled by Sox starter Tim Wakefield’s knuckler as Boston took the first game of this …

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That Old October Feeling Never Gets Old

Steven Goldman’s special installment of The Pinstriped Bible has some excellent analysis regarding these Yankees in the ALDS. He points out how fickle the media has been, questioning their questioning of this Yankee club’s shortcomings: “Here we are in October, and some still don’t know the team they have been watching since February.” Goldman dispels …

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