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    Your top "forgot he was a Red Sox"

    Rick Aguilera. Got him from the Twins in July of 1995, before he re-signed with the Twins. On the day of the trade he switched locker rooms and pitched against his teammates from earlier in the day, earning a save. Those were the days when we lusted after Twins closers: see Campbell, Bill and...
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    All Time Eyeglass Team

    I've got a great picture from 1976 of a hatless Tom House sporting aviators and a wet perm, but being new here, I can't figure out how to link a photo from my hard drive. I've been dying to share it, and tried to read up on linking on the FAQ page. It is from some sort of MLBPA collection that...
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    Stupid Things I Can't Figure Out

    Hello, long-time lurker, I wanted to post a photo of a baseball card from my collection but it looks like I am not able to do that by the insert image function?
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    Ted Cox, the first major league player with hits in his first six at bats, dies.

    In Bart Giamatti's "The Green Fields of the Mind", he extended the season, albeit briefly, with a seeing-eye single up the middle. "Cox swings a bat, stretches his long arms, bends his back, the rookie from Pawtucket who broke in two weeks earlier with a record six straight hits, the kid...
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