Pittsburgh

25 February 2011

If you’re looking for a baseball book that will keep you entertained until Opening Day, check out Dirk Hayhurst’s The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran.  The book details Hayhurst’s 2007 season at three different levels of the minors.  He describes long bus rides, living with host families, Kangaroo Court, and battling the urge to give up on a dream.  It’s an honest story about the arduous journey it takes so many ballplayers to reach their ultimate goal, knowing they may never achieve it.

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30 July 2010

leads the majors in homers.  The journeyman played for Baltimore, Tampa Bay, Kansas City, and Pittsburgh before finding a home in Toronto, and while he has always shown some pop, the Dominican native’s previous career highs were 16 homers (2006), 63 RBI (2007), and a .420 slugging percentage (2006).

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19 February 2008

Louis(6) Pittsburgh

EAST(1) Mets(2) Phillies(3) Atlanta(4) Florida(5) Washington

WEST(1) Colorado(2) San Diego(3) Arizona(4) LA Dodgers(5) San Francisco Giants

WILD CARD

San Diego Padres

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