Former MLB San Diego Padres’ pitcher Lowell Palmer, 71, has filed for bankruptcy on two occasions.…
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Former Milwaukee Brewer Bernie Smith of Lutcher, who played for the Brewers in 1970 and 1971,…
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Women and Children First? September 14 is the one-year anniversary of Linda Kidd Koch’s death. She has…
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MLB Taking Advantage: In the final episode of M*A*S*H, the pompous doctor portrayed by the late David…
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Black ballplayers hit with bad retirement pitch Eighty-two-year-old Don Dillard, of Greenwood, never made more than…
Continue ReadingSports journalists still won’t take MLB and the MLBPA to task
The late Pulitzer Prize winner Jim Murray was arguably the finest sports journalist Los Angeles ever…
Continue ReadingMr. Rogers Neighborhood
Like a lot of movie fans, I’m very excited about the forthcoming Mister Rogers biopic, It’s a…
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