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ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick followed around baseball agent Matt Sosnick for months, and I hear this is a great BtS's look at life as a baseball agent. Sosnick is well-known to be a straight-shooter in a space which often lacks loyalty and morality; his client Dontrelle Willis tattooed Sosnick's logo on his arm as a pledge of loyalty, while ex-client Josh Hamilton fired Sosnick b/c Jesus told him to in a dream. Clearly, this guy has some stories to tell; I'm looking forward to reading this one.
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baseball, superstition, hocus pocus
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These days, it seems like every single MLB player is sporting one of these Phiten necklaces. "This necklace features Phiten's Phild processed Aqua-Titanium, which regulates the body's natural electric currents through cell ionization. Promotes muscle relaxation, pain and stress relief, fatigue reduction, blood circulation improvement thus helping prevent injury." Yeh, totally sounds legit.
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baseball, apparel, subversion, civil rights, non-racism, ...
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I don't get people who claim the Cleveland Indians Chief Wahoo mascot is not offensive. Of course it is. Not sure if Caucasians are the root of this evil logo, but this shirt hopefully drives home the point.
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baseball, oakland athletics, clothing, accessories
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I have a big head (literally and figuratively). Maybe or maybe not because of this, I've always had trouble finding caps that look 'normal' on my noggin. But the Franchise line of MLB caps are fitted, have a great weathered look to them, and come with a pre-rounded brim (none of this straight-brim nonsense). Love these hats.
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baseball, computers, oakland athletics, billy beane, ...
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Arguably no book has polarized the baseball world as much as this has. Michael Lewis's chronicle of Billy Beane's masterminding of the low-revenue Oakland Athletics could also be the book most misunderstood by baseball insiders... Ultimately this is a book about creativity and new thinking, in a realm which has been adamantly against these things for generations.
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baseball, expose, knuckleball, dugout conversations
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Jim Bouton's much ballyhooed expose of life in the major leagues is not all that exposing, but that's probably a byproduct of my 21st century psyche, jaded by the infinitum of sports journalists, bloggers, jerks with cell phone cameras...Bouton still paints a great picture of what it was like to be a struggling MLBer before Free Agency, but not before widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs. Plus, he invented Big League Chew...
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