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	<title>Goose's Gabs</title>
	
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		<title>Any player/Any era: Mark Fidrych</title>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/19/playerany-era-mark-fidrych/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham Womack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baseballpastandpresent.sportsblognet.com/?p=3909</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What he did: I&#8217;m a few days late on this column, so forgive me if seems passé. I&#8217;ve been wanting to write about Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin, who recently came out of nowhere to lead New York on a seven-game winning streak. Athletes emerge from obscurity periodically to star, whether it&#8217;s sixth-round draft pick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do the worst of the best players make the best leaders?</title>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/17/worst-players-leaders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert Lang</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baseballpastandpresent.sportsblognet.com/?p=3908</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you think Branch Rickey, you think innovator. He broke the color barrier and pretty much created the framework for the modern MiLB farm system. But, before all that, he signed a pro contract in 1903. He played 82 games in the minors that year, he hit .257. However he was a catcher and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The A’s Gamble on Yoenis Cespedes</title>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/15/a%e2%80%99s-gamble-yoenis-cespedes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Guzzardi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baseballpastandpresent.sportsblognet.com/?p=3907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Oakland Athletics stunned the baseball world earlier this week when the team signed the untried Yoennis Cespedes to a 4-year, $36 million contract. Cespedes’ only experience against major league pitching came during the World Baseball Classic where he hit .428 in 24 at bats. In Cuba last year, Cespedes hit 33 home runs in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does he belong in the Hall of Fame? Dwight Evans</title>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/14/belong-hall-fame-dwight-evans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>languzzi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MLB]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baseballpastandpresent.sportsblognet.com/?p=3905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s note: Please welcome Patrick Languzzi to the site. Patrick&#8217;s been patiently waiting for a couple of months to offer something on Dwight Evans, who in December finished tenth in BPP&#8217;s annual project on the 50 best players not in the Hall of Fame. Patrick waited long enough that his piece today is apropos, given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A list of baseball research tools from John Thorn</title>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/13/list-baseball-research-tools-john-thorn/</link>
		<comments>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/13/list-baseball-research-tools-john-thorn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham Womack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MLB]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baseballpastandpresent.sportsblognet.com/?p=3901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession, one that I doubt makes me different than countless other baseball bloggers, but a confession nevertheless. Too often, what I call research for this site basically consists of me going to Baseball-Reference.com, Wikipedia, or the SABR BioProject. I combine this perhaps with references to a handful of great baseball books, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Josh Gibson:  The Black Babe Ruth?</title>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/12/josh-gibson-black-babe-ruth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bird</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MLB]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[His Hall of Fame plaque reads that Josh Gibson hit “almost 800 homeruns” in his career. There are several reports of Josh Gibson hitting home runs which traveled more than 500 feet. Walter Johnson said Gibson could, “hit the ball a mile.”  Satchel Paige simply called Gibson, “the greatest hitter who ever lived.”  “There were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Gene Conley, Seasons Didn’t Matter</title>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/10/gene-conley-seasons-didn%e2%80%99t-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/10/gene-conley-seasons-didn%e2%80%99t-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Guzzardi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MLB]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baseballpastandpresent.sportsblognet.com/?p=3899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These are the darkest days. Football is over. I haven’t watched a NBA game from start to finish since I lived in New York when Willis Reed, Clyde Frazier and Bill Bradley led the Knicks to the 1969-1970 championship. As for hockey, I blame my disinterest on growing up in Los Angeles where the only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Any Player/Any Era: Tony Phillips</title>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/09/playerany-era-tony-phillips/</link>
		<comments>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/09/playerany-era-tony-phillips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Albert Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tony Phillips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What he did: Tony Phillips had a long and relatively accomplished career (48.2 WAR in 18 seasons), yet doesn’t seem to be mentioned at all anymore. It seems Phillips was completely overshadowed by teammates (Jose Canseco, Cecil Fielder, Lou Whitaker, Alan Trammell, Travis Fryman, Jim Edmonds, Tim Salmon, Frank Thomas, Robin Ventura, etc.) However, Phillips deserved more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Bullet Bob,” Billionaire</title>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/08/%e2%80%9cbullet-bob%e2%80%9d-billionaire/</link>
		<comments>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/08/%e2%80%9cbullet-bob%e2%80%9d-billionaire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Guzzardi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MLB]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baseballpastandpresent.sportsblognet.com/?p=3895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I most miss about baseball’s Golden Era is the blockbuster off season trade. Today when and if trades are made, they usually involve a marginal player swapped for an obscure minor leaguer. Fans have no particular attachment to the marginal guy and no clue about the minor leaguer. We’re robbed of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does he belong in the Hall of Fame? Craig Biggio</title>
		<link>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/07/belong-hall-fame-craig-biggio/</link>
		<comments>http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/02/07/belong-hall-fame-craig-biggio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham Womack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Craig Biggio]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baseballpastandpresent.sportsblognet.com/?p=3893</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Claim to fame: This fall, the Hall of Fame will get its deepest and most troubled class of eligible players in recent memory, with Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Sammy Sosa among others new to the writers ballot. With the Baseball Writers Association of America continuing to argue amongst itself over enshrining players who were [...]]]></description>
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