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    Red Sox draft of pitchers from 2000, on

    Year of June Draft -- Round/Overall Pick -- Pitcher (if year begins with dash, it is the same as the year above). All picks in the 1st round or round are shown; otherwise the first pick made is shown. Source bb-ref.com As may be seen, the Red Sox haven't had much luck when drafting pitchers...
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    Walk-up tunes

    Article in local paper about walk-up tunes for Fisher Cat players: One player says that hearing his song gives him "an extra boost or adrenaline before starting the game." Another says "Usually with walk-up music for me, it's always like what makes me good or gets me like happier or something...
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    The racist incident that shook baseball nine years before integration

    Interesting article in the Washington Post about a Yankees' outfielder remarks in a pregame interview in 1938 that allegedly slowed the integration of the game: https://wapo.st/44PWMn6
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    How first Orthodox Jew in an MLB organization is making it work

    Article in today's WAPO I found interesting about Jacob Steinmetz, a Diamondback minor league pitcher in his third season (now with Visalia) and the problems an Orthodox Jew jas to cope with when trying to play professional sports: https://wapo.st/45TqDMf (hope the link works) What is a bit...
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    Today is the anniversary of my first game at Fenway Park, 21 August 1952

    There was a couple from Lynn who had a hunting lodge a couple of miles up the road from where I grew up outside a very small town in central NH. They became friends of the family and were childless and they asked if I wanted to go back to Lynn with them when the weekend ended. "What would you...
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    Bhutan hopes to be next great baseball country

    Not sure where to post this but I was surprised that no one mentioned this article from mlb.com about the sudden interest in baseball in the small country, high up in the Himalayas between India and Tibet, where more than 6,000 children are becoming baseball fanatics. Some interesting...