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Michael Bamberger: Forty years ago, Seaver was nearly perfect
If you happened to be thumbing through the Newsday sports section on Thursday, you may have noticed an unusual box score: Mets 4, Cubs 0, in New York. Time of game: 2 hours, 2 minutes. Then you read...
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Michael Bamberger: Time to give Jamie Moyer his due as he closes in on...
Now that he's about to do it, now that Jamie Moyer will soon set the alltime record for home runs allowed, let's give the man the credit he's due. Moyer, the Phillies' ancient 47-year-old lefty, enters...
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Michael Bamberger: Halladay in total control on night he enters baseball's...
PHILADELPHIA -- So what was it like, to be at the park on a drizzly October night a guy pitched his way into the pantheon? The fans at Citizens Bank Park waved their little white rally towels...
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Michael Bamberger: For the Reds, there is a tomorrow, but that may be all...
PHILADELPHIA -- It probably wasn't smart for Reds' pitchers to start plunking Phillies.
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Michael Bamberger: Now the Phils wait; that's good and bad
CINCINNATI -- It's such a staple on classic rock stations, you're surely sick of it by now. The Phillies are, too.
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Michael Bamberger: The benefits and dangers of open-water swimming
My first newspaper job after college was at the Vineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard, an island in Massachusetts surrounded by sea and ocean, some of it very moody and turbulent. Once a summer, the...
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Michael Bamberger: Running not against the clock, but instead for solidarity
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- There was no marathon here on this Sunday, a blue and nippy spring morning. There wasn't, we were reminded on the start line, even a race. All there was was a three-mile group run,...
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Michael Bamberger: Alex Rodriguez's Saturday night in Trenton felt like the...
TRENTON -- Alex Rodriguez at Arm & Hammer Park on a pleasant Saturday night in August was, surely, not Ted Williams at Fenway in weak September daylight, playing his final game before 6,000 fans,...
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Michael Bamberger: You don't bunt with John Kruk: Great parenting advice from...
The best advice on parenting I ever received came from Jim Fregosi, the baseball lifer who died on Friday at age 71. This was in March 1994, about five months after the Philadelphia Phillies, the team...
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