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#baseball

When I picked up this book, I had no understanding of it except that it was "about baseball." But the book isn't about baseball, at least not in the traditional sense. It's about a version of baseball that exists only in the mind of the book's protagonist, J. Henry Waugh, who lives alone in an apartment, neglects his job as an accountant, and has pastrami sandwiches delivered to him so that he can spend all of his time working as the commissioner of a baseball league he has made up in his vivid imagination.

“[Cervantes] used the word childish,” Savage recalled. “And I kind of like that because that's the first thing you think, like, 'What the hell? Baby dinosaur? What are we doing?' And so, he got a little chuckle out of it. He doesn't take himself too serious, and I like that from a young guy. But it's something that he loves and works off and, you know, good for him.”

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John Sterling, the radio play-by-play voice of the Yankees for more than 35 years, who was best known for punctuating his home run calls with colorful if not wacky phrases like an A-bomb for A-Rod! (for Alex Rodriguez) and Robbie Cano, dontcha know! (for Robinson Cano), died on Monday in Englewood, N.J. He was 87.

In the middle of the sixth inning of a game where the Atlanta Braves were firmly in control of things against the Boston Red Sox, the skies suddenly opened up. First, they were able to play through a bit of hail but once they went out there for the bottom of the sixth inning, the bottom completely fell out and the grounds crew was forced to stop play.

Chatsworth a 12-time City Section volleyball champion after the Chancellors won the Open Division championship on Saturday night, knocking off West Valley League rival Granada Hills 24-26, 25-21, 25-14, 25-18.

Maxi Moralez is more than half a foot shorter - and about 40 pounds lighter - than the average pro midfielder. He has the sort of body that usually gets filtered out of elite soccer long before adulthood. But Moralez would have none of that. He built his game around the advantages of being small: balance, quick turns, low center of gravity. His nickname is Frasquito - little flask. Small, but full.

Capra would reach the big leagues two years later, making three appearances for New York as a September call-up. Capra bounced between the Majors and Triple-A over the next two seasons, working as a starter in the minors while pitching in a swing role at the MLB level. The Mets sold his contract to the Braves for $25K in Spring Training 1974.

No player will perform perfectly on the field, but there are few as consistently mistake-free as Nico Hoerner at second base. That's especially true on the mental side of the game, where you will almost never see Hoerner goof on a play because he did something he shouldn't do, or failed to do something he should.