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Bryan Hoch / MLB.com:
Jeter hit on hand; X-rays negative — Yankees captain expected to play in Sunday's Stadium finale — NEW YORK — The cheers and screams that filled Yankee Stadium for most of Saturday afternoon came to a sudden stop for an instant in the ninth inning. — The fans seemed to collectively hold …
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Sliding Into Home
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Henry A. Kissinger / New York Times:
Sitting With DiMaggio and Steinbrenner — Yankee Stadium was an important stage in my discovery of America. I came here as an immigrant in 1938. In the summer of 1939, I started working in a shaving brush factory. Some of my co-workers turned out to be of Italian origin, and they took me to a baseball game at Yankee Stadium.
Billy Crystal / New York Times:
Yankees Add Member to Family — May 30, 1956, was the first time I walked into Yankee Stadium. My dad, and my two older brothers and I holding hands so we wouldn't get separated, my 8-year-old heart pounding as I saw the field for the first time. — Mantle hit it off the facade that day, my first game.
Ed Price / New Jersey Online:Big names expected at Yankee Stadium finale, Steinbrenner not among them
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The Crawfish Boxes, Deadspin, NJ.com, NY Daily News, River Ave. Blues and Sliding Into Home
Maury Brown / The Biz of Baseball:Turn Out The Lights: Yankee Stadium Final Game Coverage by ESPN & MLB.com
Rick Chandler / Deadspin:So Hard To Say Goodbye: Remembering Yankee Stadium
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Depressed Fan
Kelly Thesier / MLB.com:
Twins' rough road trip continues — Minnesota falls to playoff-clinching Rays at The Trop — ST. PETERSBURG — Denard Span lingered just off the playing field at Tropicana Field on Saturday evening and watched as the Rays erupted into a jumping huddle before him, celebrating their first postseason berth.
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Metrodome Memories
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Justice B. Hill / MLB.com:
Good inklings abound for Baker — Skipper expresses optimism about future as season wraps up — CINCINNATI — The calendar peeled back another day in the 162-game season Saturday, and with no postseason for manager Dusty Baker and the Reds to look forward to, the skipper took a few minutes to discuss the future.
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MLB Rumors
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Joe Kay / Associated Press:
Fading Brewers lose again, 4-3 to Reds — CINCINNATI (AP)—A half-dozen Milwaukee Brewer players sat in padded folding chairs in front of their lockers, staring at a spot on the clubhouse carpet and a future that's getting bleaker by the day. — Not even prized acquisition CC Sabathia …
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Nick Piecoro
Associated Press:
ChiSox fail to build on AL Central lead — KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—Kyle Davies gave up three hits in seven-plus innings and the Kansas City Royals beat the Chicago White Sox 5-2 Saturday night. — David DeJesus hit an inside-the-park home run, and Alex Gordon and Kila Ka'aihue also homered for the Royals …
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Baseball Musings
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Todd Zolecki / Philly.com:
Marlins tattoo Myers — MIAMI - Brett Myers has had a tattoo on his left wrist for more than three years. — It hardly can be seen from home plate. — But the Florida Marlins had a problem with it last night at Dolphin Stadium. So they asked the umpires to tell Myers to put on long sleeves after the second inning, which he did.
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Michael Silverman / Boston Herald:
Bartolo Colon bolts from bullpen — Club suspends pitcher — + Recent Articles + Recent Blog Entries + Email — TORONTO - Bartolo Colon decided the Dominican Republic, not the Red Sox [team stats] bullpen, was the best place to be for the remainder of the 2008 season.
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MLB Rumors
Dave Krieger / Rocky Mountain News:
Fuentes' likely exit quiet - and puzzling — Somehow, the best closer the Rockies ever had is on his way out the door with virtually no fanfare, and precious few complaints. — It's a little odd. Brian Fuentes' impending departure as a free agent doesn't bring anywhere near the debate …
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Purple Row
Ben Shpigel / New York Times:
Maine Is Eager to Return in Case Mets Need a Lift — ATLANTA — In spring training, John Maine said he had one personal goal for the season: to pitch 200 innings. Maine, stuck on 140 since Aug. 23, has adjusted his expectations. Now, pitching one inning would suffice.
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Associated Press
John Hickey / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
A's rally to beat Mariners again — OAKLAND, Calif. — The era of instant replay has made it to baseball. — It just hasn't made it to Seattle. — The Mariners had a key ninth-inning call at third base — an unreviewable call — go against them Saturday, leading the way to the club's …
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Athletics Nation
Eric Barrow / NY Daily News:
Seaver gives Mets an identity & a title — Tom Seaver and Gary Gentry walked back out onto the mound not long after the chaos had settled. — There was graffiti on the outfield wall, just next to a portion of fence that had been ripped out. The grass was decimated, hacked up in clumps and literally carried away in the frenzy.
