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100 and counting: baseball's past and present can be seen through the lens of the World Series

The 2004 World Series will be the 100th in major league history. Thanks to the Yankees' stranglehold on the event, American League teams take a...
Sporting News, The, 10/25/04 by Joe Hoppel · More from publication
Fundamental differences: Japanese players gain a basic advantage over U.S. major leaguers—thanks to practice, practice and more practice

DISTURBED when me star outfielder or your favorite team throws to the wrong base or misses the cutoff man by the proverbial country mile? UPSET...
Sporting News, The, 05/17/04 by Joe Hoppel · More from publication
The book on … Joe Torre Manager, Yankees

"He makes you want to do the right thing." "He makes you want to do the right thing." So says Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer about manager Joe...
Sporting News, The, 11/08/99 by Joe Hoppel · More from publication
Grand dames

Baseball's favorite dowagers remain ever-so-dignified and in surprisingly good health. One is getting along comfortably in New England at the same...
Sporting News, The, 07/12/99 by Joe Hoppel · More from publication
The Hot Stove League fires up

A busy week of player movement stokes expectations for what's coming at the winter meetings A busy week of player movement stokes expectations...
Sporting News, The, 11/23/98 by Joe Hoppel · More from publication
Swooning over the Cubs

The Chicago Cubs have been perennial losers throughout most of the second-half of the 20th century, but things are looking up in 1998. The Cubs...
Sporting News, The, 06/29/98 by Joe Hoppel · More from publication

Upstaging the expansion draft

The expansion draft in which the new Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays stocked their rosters for their inaugural season in 1998 was...
Sporting News, The, 12/01/97 by Joe Hoppel · More from publication
1997 Ad

The Cleveland Indians and Florida Marlins were criticized for poor defensive play and pitching in the 1997 World Series, but much of that was due...
Sporting News, The, 11/03/97 by Joe Hoppel · More from publication
Calling 'em as he sees 'em

Harry Finkelman has been the public address announcer at Concord College of West Virginia football games for 50 years. Finkelman took a teaching...
Sporting News, The, 10/27/97 by Joe Hoppel · More from publication
Frank Thomas, the original

In 1997 Frank Thomas is known as one of baseball's top players with the Chicago White Sox, but another Frank Thomas was a top star in the game from...
Sporting News, The, 07/28/97 by Joe Hoppel · More from publication