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Terra Nova (Pacifica, CA) grad Greg Reynolds arrived at the Colorado Rockies' spring training site in 2011 with a clean slate, healthy body and the determination to show the team who made him the second pick overall in the 2006 First-Year Player Draft that he can deliver.
"First and foremost I want to show them I'm healthy," Reynolds said recently. "I want to prove, in this camp, that all the adversity is in the past."
Beat writers who regularly cover the Rockies say Reynolds, will more than likely wind up at Triple-A Colorado Springs. They also said had he avoided injuries and surgery that cost him more than a full season, he would be in contention for the starting rotation.
Reynolds reached the Major Leagues in 2008, but struggled in 14 games, going 2-8 with an 8.13 ERA. The next year he sustained an injury in a muscle in the back of his shoulder and eventually underwent surgery.
He was impressive last spring, but suffered a chipped elbow when hit by a line drive during a batting practice session. He finished the year in Double-A Tulsa and made seven appearances in the Arizona Fall League.
"The great thing for me was being able to stretch things out at full speed," Reynolds said. "Right now I feel great. I had a good rest period and went through a ton of conditioning to get ready for the spring."
He subscribes to the Nolan Ryan theory that tossing a football can help strengthen the arm. The former all-county quarterback did a lot of long tossing during the offseason.
"A football is not as light as a baseball and so you don't throw it as hard," Reynolds said. "That leads to less stress and more strength."
Tossing a football around at Rockies' camp would be entertaining. Todd Helton was a quarterback at Tennessee and Seth Smith was a quarterback at Mississippi.
Reynolds attended Stanford on a baseball scholarship but that didn't deter then coach Buddy Teevens to ask him to try out for football there.
"I always knew my career would be baseball and that was going to be hard enough," Reynolds said. "It was a decision I had to make and being my first year I wanted to concentrate on baseball at that time."
A strong junior season, in which he was matched against Pac-10 starters like Tim Lincecum at Washington, Brandon Morrow at California and Ian Kennedy at USC, led to his high draft status. Morrow went fifth, Tim Lincecum went 10th and Kennedy went 21st overall.
Reynolds heard talk the Rockies were going to draft Evan Longoria out of Long Beach State (who went third) so he was a little surprised.
It was one particular game, during his sophomore year, in which Reynolds came of age as a college pitcher and he lost.
Reynolds threw 11 innings in a 4-3 loss to Baylor at the Waco Regional in 2005. He struck out 10 hitters and kept the hometown Bears at bay until allowing a solo home run leading off the 12th.
"Something just happened," Reynolds said. "I remember after that game coach (Dean) Stotz coming up to me and saying what a great outing it was and how there was no reason I couldn't do it every time. That was a big growing point in my career."
Stanford's lineup featured other future major leaguers like John Hester, John Mayberry, Jr. and Jed Lowrie.
The next year he started 18 games for Stanford and finished five of them, including three straight at one point. He had a 3.31 ERA in over 127 innings pitched.
"I must have been throwing 120 pitches a game," Reynolds said. "But we were only throwing once a week."
Reynolds never had any trouble with high school but he's seen how one man can make a difference for a struggling student. Terra Nova football coach Bill Gray made an impact on many young men.
"He was great to me and taught me a lot," Reynolds said. "I still go back and visit him every year. He's the first coach I had who stressed the little things, like being on time. A lot of things he taught me are still with me. The best part was he taught me to be a leader. I've seen him help a lot of kids who were struggling with school."
Reynolds enters spring with a new pitch. He's been working with a splitter and hopes to add it to his repertoire.
"I picked it up during the offseason and just started working on it," Reynolds said. "I asked Ubaldo (Jimenez) about his grip and how it should feel. He helped me out a lot and it's made a difference. Since I've been using his grip I've been getting a lot more action on the pitch."
Rockies player development director Marc Gustafson told Thomas Harding of mlb.com that Reynolds' offseason strengthening program has paid dividends.
"He's a sleeper for me this Spring Training because his delivery is where it needs to be and his health is where it needs to be," Gustafson said. "Coming in healthy, with a clean slate, things are going to work out really well for him. He's confident. He's optimistic. We all are. We certainly hope he gets back to where he once was. It has been a tough year and a half to two years, but he's back."

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE:
April 8, 2011

By Bill Arnold

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OLD SCHOOL
There are just 10 living former major-leaguers who debuted in the 1930's. Two-time All-Star Eddie Joost debuted earlier than any other living former big-leaguer beginning his career in 1936 and going on to play 17 seasons with the Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves, Philadelphia A's and Boston Red Sox. Hall-of-Famer and nine-time All-Star Bobby Doerr was next on the scene starting his career in April of 1937 and playing 14 seasons with the Boston Red Sox. The other eight enjoyed more limited stints in the bigs. The 10 surviving former players who provide the last link to Major League Baseball in the 1930's are (ages as of 4/8/2011):

Player Debut Date Team Played Pos. Age Now

Eddie Joost 9/11/1936 Reds 17 SS 94

Bobby Doerr 4/20/1937 Red Sox 14 2B 93

Ace Parker 4/24/1937 A's 2 PR 98

Art Kenney 7/01/1938 Braves 1 LHP 94

Alex Pitko 9/11/1938 Phillies 2 RF 96

Benny McCoy 9/14/1938 Tigers 4 2B 95

Ralph Hodgin 4/19/1939 Braves 6 PH 96

Mike Palagyi 8/18/1939 Senators 1 RHP 93

Al Brancato 9/07/1939 A's 4 3B 91

Al Veigel 9/21/1939 Braves 1 RHP 94

GENERATIONS
Boston Red Sox reliever Tim Wakefield was the oldest player on an Opening Day roster this season. When Boston began their season on April 1, Wakefield was 44 years and 232 days old and will turn 45 in August. The oldest position player was shortstop Omar Vizquel of the Chicago White Sox at 43 years and 342 days. The youngest major-leaguer on Opening Day was Chicago Cub infielder Starlin Castro at 21 years and eight days. The youngest pitcher was Tim Collins of the Kansas City Royals at 21 years and 222 days.

AROUND THE HORN
Fans interested in baseball's statistical history will enjoy Joe Taxiera's "A Unique Look at Big League Baseball" available through his website, www.uniquebaseball.com; the book has a wide array of useful and hard to find records and helps fill the void created when the Sporting News discontinued publication of their annual record book in 2007.

The Royals began the 2011 season with a four-game winning streak; last year they never won more than three straight.

Friday night, at the Mariners' home opener, beer vendor Kevin Zelko will try to update the hawker's art by soliciting orders from fans in the stands at Safeco Field via his Twitter account, @Msbeervendor.

Shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera has participated in each of the last three triple plays turned by the Indians; the shortstop helped turn the Tribe's three-in-one wonder on April 3 against the White Sox, turned an unassisted TP in 2008 and took part another group effort in 2007.

Matt Stairs needs one more pinch hit with the Nationals to become the 19th player in major-league history to record at least 100 in his career.

The Cubs this season will offer a new hot dog at Wrigley Field called the "Heater" featuring an all-beef wiener topped with blue cheese coleslaw, celery salt and buffalo sauce.

The Phillies missed their chance to begin a season 4-0 for the first time since 1915 when they lost to the Mets on Tuesday night.

On Japanese Heritage Day on April 3 in Oakland, Mariners' right fielder Ichiro Suzuki threw out A's DH Hideki Matsui who was trying to advance from second to third on Kurt Suzuki's fly ball in the second inning.

Chipper Jones needs two hits to become the ninth switch-hitter to reach 2,500 and six RBIs to become the third switch to record 1,500; Eddie Murray is the only switch-hitter in the majors to record both 2,500 hits and 1,500 ribbies.

Former player, manager and scout Charlie Metro, who passed away at 92 on March 18, changed his last name from Moreskononich after a sportswriter told him it was too long to fit in a printed box score.

Each Giant voted a full share for the team's 2010 World Series win took home $317,631.29.

As a tribute to Dave Niehaus, the long-time Mariners radio and TV broadcaster who passed away this offseason, the bottom of the third was broadcast without a word spoken by the M's television announcers on Opening Night in Oakland.

Although it's undergone many rule changes, the current version of the disabled list was first introduced in 1941; an earlier version existed in the N.L. in 1915-16 but the league abandoned it in 1917.

Kila Ka'aihue's walk-off homer for the Royals on April 1 was just the sixth by a Hawaiian-born player.

The New Hampshire Fisher Cats of the Double-A Eastern League changed their stadium's name during the offseason from Merchantsauto.com Stadium to Northeast Delta Dental Stadium.

According to Bill Chuck of the Bill Chuck Files, this season the Twins' Target Field will feature a kosher cart serving Hebrew National dogs and all-kosher condiments; the cart will be supervised daily (except for the Sabbath) by a rabbi or rabbi's representative.

While the Nationals are not at the top of anyone's list to win the World Series this season, the team had six players (Alex Cora, Jerry Hairston, Jr., Livan Hernandez, Ivan Rodriguez, Matt Stairs and Jayson Werth) on its Opening Day roster who have earned World Series rings with other franchises.

Since Ron Gardenhire became their skipper in 2002, the Twins have gone 7-32 in regular and postseason games against the Yankees in the Bronx.

According to radio broadcaster Doug Greenwald, Brandon Belt joined Jack Hiatt, Mark Leonard, John Montefusco, Todd Linden, Jason Ellison and Noah Lowry as the only Giants to hit their first major-league homers at Dodger Stadium.

Stanford's Mark Marquess became the ninth college baseball coach to win 1,400 games when the Cardinal defeated Washington State on April 3.

Pitcher Aaron Crow became the first University of Missouri alum to play for the Royals when he debuted on April 2.

The Giants, Phillies, Rangers and Reds are the only teams that improved their records in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Stat guru David Feldman notes that the A's had four left-handed relievers on their Opening Day roster for the first time since they moved to Oakland in 1968.

Dodger skipper Don Mattingly joined Lou Piniella (1986 Yankees), Mayo Smith (1955 Phillies) and Pat Moran (1915 Phillies) as the only rookie managers to beat the defending World Series champion on Opening Day the next season; Mattingly's Dodgers defeated the Giants, 2-1, on March 31.

On Tuesday night, Yovani Gallardo of the Brewers became the first pitcher since Mark Davis (1983 Giants) to throw a shutout on two hits or less and score his team's only run in a 1-0 game.

Eric Chavez, who made his debut with the Yankees as a defensive replacement on April 2, snapped his streak of playing 13 consecutive seasons (1,320 games) with the A's.

The Astros became the first N.L. team since the Diamondbacks (1998-99) to start consecutive seasons 0-4 or worse; on Thursday, the 'Stros became the last NL team win a game when they defeated the REds tio improve their record to 1-5.

Angel ace Jared Weaver is the first pitcher to twice strike out Manny Ramirez of the Rays three times in a game.

Kyle Drabek is the latest pitcher to wear a rare single-digit number; the Pirate starter is sports uniform number 4.

On Wednesday, the Royals joined the 1969 Red Sox, 1962 Orioles and 1952 Browns as the only teams since 1950 to play three straight games of at least 12 innings.

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Copyright 2010, Sports Features Group

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Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre was asked if he thought Washington Nationals' current trending right-hander Steve Strausburg belongs on the National League all-star team in 2010. His response, from a pre-game meeting on June 30, 2010 from the visitor's dugout at AT&T Park:
"He's a super prospect and a great pitcher but I don't think that he's been here long enough. A guy who's been working at it from April should be in it. That's no slam on him. He's a sensational pitcher."
What if he gives the NL the best chance to win?
"I don't buy it. I like to believe you show you belong there. Again, this kid is very special but that's over thinking if that's the process."
Torre has played in nine all-star games and managed several others. His philosophy?
"My goal is to use every single player, not every pitcher, but I feel if any player makes the team he should have a right to play. In games I've played, Willie Mays has led off and why not? You get to see him as often as possible. In positions wehre they are a lot of guys i like to put the starter higher up in the order so to give other guys a chance to play and get an at bat. These are all guys who are all-stars. They are there for a reason."
"We've always gone out to win the game. The tie in Milwaukee was one of those unfortunate things. The pitcher I held in reserve had just pitched the previous Sunday. Had he been more rested, that game could have gone 16 innings."
Should the all-star winner determine home team for the World Series?
"Alternating every year worked out just fine. But Bud Selig was embarassed because the tie happened in his city and he doesn't want it to happen again. It's unfortuante but that's the way it is. I've heard about other ways to determine home field advantage, if that's what they want. This is a game that is supposed to be fun. Players want to win but it's a chance for them just to enjoy something. I've never had any patience with guys who say unless they start, they don't want to go, that's a shame. Every time I was picked, it was special just to look at the players who were around me. It never gets old. It's always something special. A guy who has a terrific first half, he should be rewarded. It may never happen again."

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Henry Schulman on baseball from April 25, 2010:

Baseball is the perfection of a 9o-foot baseline, the 60 1/2-foot distance between rubber and plate and the symmetry of a diamond, all mocking the imperfection of those who attempt to conquer the geometry.

It is the wonderful, delicious overdose of green that intoxicates our eyes and soothes our life-worn souls upon entering the stadium; the unmistakable and riveting crack of bat on ball; the smell of a leather glove; the peaceful sensation of summer sun beating on your forehead as you lean back in your seat during the anticipatory quarter-hour between the reading of lineups and the first pitch.

Baseball is America's metaphor for existence, from our birth in spring to our workaday struggles in summer to our demise in fall; and, if you roll that way, the promise of resurrection in spring.

It is the seabirds hovering over an emptying stadium in the late-afternoon chill, waiting to pounce on the game's carrion before the cleaning crew sweeps every memory of that day's existence into oblivion.

Baseball is numbers -- the absolute need to have them and the absolute need to ignore them.

It is a card game of "casino" in the Latin quarter of the clubhouse; the wonderful and nauseating uncertainty of a one-run lead in the ninth; the balletic beauty of a diving catch; the endearing optimism of a child with glove in hand waiting for a foul ball; the eight-dollar beer you cannot do without.

It is the debate and the commentary and the game story and the box score and the announcer's call. Good lord, how Buck and Greenwald and Scully have made us weep.

Baseball is the stifle of August at Busch and the numbness of Wrigley in April; the can't-miss prospect in the minors who almost always misses; the joy of those tickets resting on the dining room table awaiting tomorrow; the three seconds of orgasmic joy or paralytic panic, depending on your hometown, as the home run ball soars toward its final destination.

Most of all, baseball is a friend whose loss we could not abide.

(Jane Lee, who worked her way up from intern to writer, has special qualities which make her one of the bright, young stars of the sportswriting business. I except big things from her, including a book career).

I'm starting to wonder if the A's training room is handing out free lollipops or something. Or maybe stickers and Disney princess band-aids. That's just my guess. I can't seem to think of any good reason why the baseball gods, year after year, continue to sprinkle this A's team with health problems. As expected, Kurt Suzuki became the 10th A's player to go on the disabled list today. Justin Duchscherer could easily be next, and Dallas Braden's numb foot didn't exactly leave anyone feeling great after the lefty's last performance.

After seemingly getting off to one of their healthiest starts in years, the A's have quickly reminded us that the bad luck that has continually circled through the clubhouse hasn't quite left. A total of 74 players have made use of the DL since the start of the 2007 season, and the A's are now on pace to use it about 70 times this year alone. Anyone out there working on a medical thesis right now? Someone could easily do an exhaustive study on this injury-prone team.

Let's take a look at who's enjoying a Tootsie Roll Pop right now:

Kurt Suzuki is bored out of his mind thanks to an intercostal strain in his left side that will keep him out of the lineup until May 9 at the earliest. That's when he's eligible to return from the 15-day DL.

Mark Ellis didn't make the team's current road trip and is instead treating his strained left hamstring. He's eligible to be reinstated from the DL on May 6, but the club isn't making any promises that his name will be back in the lineup then. After all, Ellis returned April 20 after missing seven games due to the injury and left the game after five innings. No need to rush him.

Travis Buck, possibly the most frustrated of them all, is out with a strained right oblique muscle -- which flared up during batting practice April 21 and had him on the DL by the next morning. He hit a monster of a home run the day before suffering the injury and appeared to be heading toward a hot streak, making the situation that much more disappointing. Story of Buck's life, though. Right?

Coco Crisp probably wants to simply wave a magic wand over his fractured pinkie finger right about now, but he's taking things in stride because he know there's absolutely nothing he can do to make it heal quicker. He's hopeful he'll be able to resume baseball activity in less than two weeks, which means we could maybe see him make his debut in green and gold by the end of May.

Brett Anderson received quite the reward for signing a four-year contract extension last week. And I'm not talking about the $32 million he could potentially earn. Rather, Anderson is now being forced to celebrate his new deal with a strain near his flexor tendon that will force him to miss at least five weeks.

Michael Wuertz scared us all when he wasn't pitching in any Spring Training games. That's when we found out about the sore shoulder, which then turned into shoulder tendinitis, which then put him on the DL to start the season. The A's top right-handed setup man is on his way back, though. He is scheduled to pitch for Triple-A Sacramento tonight and, if all goes well, he could rejoin the team for next week's homestand.

Joey Devine is one of the nicest guys on the team, but his surgically-repaired elbow hasn't been so kind to him. Devine entered camp quite enthused that he was ahead of his Tommy John rehab schedule only to be set back with tendinitis halfway through spring. Then, just as he was about to face live hitters last week, he felt more pain and found out the tendinitis has returned. However, that's relatively good news considering he thought there might be a tear involved. Devine was transferred to the 60-day DL today to make room for Josh Donaldson on the A's 40-man, so it looks like we won't see him until after the All-Star break.

Josh Outman, like Devine, is recovering from Tommy John surgery and isn't expected to rejoin the club until midseason. All reports on his recovery process, though, have been nothing but thumbs up.

John Meloan, remember him? He underwent Tommy John surgery last month and will likely be out until the middle of the 2011 season.

That should add up to nine. Trevor Cahill, who struggled in his season debut against the Jays tonight, represents the club's 10th player to have used the DL this year. He started the season there with a stress reaction in his left scapula before being optioned to Sacramento and, eventually, being recalled to fill Anderson's place.

The A's also saw Kevin Kouzmanoff and Jerry Blevins miss time due to their own respective injuries last week. Now, the team will wait on news from Dr. Thomas Byrd, who will examine Duchscherer's MRI on Monday in Nashville. If surgery is required, folks, you won't be seeing him back in a uniform this year.

Watching Duchscherer choke up after last night's game was rough. This guy's essentially been to mental hell and back, and now he's dealing with yet another hip issue after just five starts. If he's out of the mix, Vin Mazzaro is likely to get the call up. Maybe then we'll appreciate all this depth talk Billy Beane spoke of so much during the offseason.

On the upside, Eric Chavez is still going strong. Of all the players who have fallen victim to the injury bug, who would have thought the A's veteran would not be one of them? Chavez very much appears to have a great peace of mind regarding his role on this team, and it's good to see him enjoying himself on the field again. He also got a haircut recently, as I observed today. "Actually," he said with a grin, "I got it last week, but thanks for noticing."

Hey, it's hard to keep track of trips to the DL, let alone visits to the salon...

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By Janie McCauley
AP Sports Writer

Teagan Gerhart still gets regular references to being the younger sister of Heisman Trophy runner-up and former Stanford star Toby Gerhart.

Those who know her well and have watched the pitcher's sensational freshman season for the Cardinal are beginning to turn that around: "Toby is Teagan's big brother."

"I'm still always going to be his little sister, nothing can change that," she said. "He's definitely set the bar really high here. To be able to follow in his footsteps and keep our name going, it's an awesome thing."

She is doing just that on campus as Stanford's new softball ace.

There's no avoiding the attention after an improbable weekend last month that featured a perfect game on a Friday night against Santa Clara, followed by a pair of no-hitters the next day versus Princeton and Saint Mary's in the Louisville Slugger Classic.

And Gerhart overcame plenty in her childhood to get here. One of triplet girls born a month premature, she had 17 facial surgeries from ages 2 weeks to 12 years for a cleft palate, 80 percent hearing loss and to remove a large birthmark on the left side of her face. She now has two titanium bones in her ears and only 20 percent hearing loss, and scars are the only evidence of where the birthmark used to be.

It wasn't easy facing the constant teasing she remembers from a young age, when she either wore an eye patch or showed her birthmark.

The mark, as Gerhart puts it, looked like a handprint. The girls were born 5 minutes apart via C-section and the running joke is oldest Whitley "hit me to get out first." While Whitley plays softball at Cal Poly, the third triplet _ Kelsey _ is also on Stanford's team as a backup catcher.

Teagan keeps a picture in her dorm room of herself as a little one with the birthmark to remember how her face once looked, and how much she's grown from the challenging experiences in her life. She even plans to meet up with a female professor on campus who had a similar mark on her face.

Toby Gerhart, a powerful running back who lost the Heisman to Alabama's Mark Ingram in the closest vote in the award's 75-year history, is projected as a second- or third-round pick in next week's NFL draft. It was he _ the oldest of six kids _ who taught the girls to braid their hair and even did it for them before school.

"Obviously, she comes from a talented family," 14th-year Stanford softball coach John Rittman said. "In our program, she's been nothing but open-minded and open-armed about learning and developing, whether it's pitching, hitting, baserunning, whatever. The great ones usually are like that."

Heading into a three-game weekend series at Arizona starting Friday, Gerhart was 22-5 with a 1.58 ERA in 185 2-3 innings. She had 169 strikeouts to just 42 walks and was holding opponents to a .177 batting average. Stanford ranks eighth and 10th, respectively, in softball's two polls.

With each strong outing, the painfully shy Gerhart comes more out of her shell and gains a confidence that everybody around her has noticed.

"That's pretty remarkable any time you can throw a perfect game and two no-hitters back to back to back," Rittman said. "It's an amazing feat no matter what level of softball you're at."

Stanford has produced its share of Olympians and All-Americans, yet Gerhart is already well on her way to setting a handful of single-season school records.

"I guess that just shows what's to come," Kelsey said. "She's dedicated and doesn't just strive for one weekend like that."

Gerhart remembers pitching all of about five no-hitters in high school. She is producing plenty on offense for Stanford, too.

In a 17-0 rout of UC Davis earlier this month, she hit a grand slam and an RBI double in a 15-run first inning.

Gerhart is intensely focused even during her side work. She repeatedly tosses the neon yellow ball in the air and catches it before she steps up to start throwing. Then, it's all business.

As she warmed up the other day, firing pitch after pitch to her sister, she shook her head in disgust after one bad offering.

The next was right on target.

"Nice," Kelsey said.

Pitching coach Trisha Ford was there with a watchful eye, and agreed. In Gerhart's unique delivery, she keeps both hands in her glove, brings them down to her right knee and in one quick arm rotation the ball is gone.

"She doesn't let any success go to her head. She's a very humble kid," Rittman said. "She's just gotten better every weekend."

What's equally impressive? She's studying biology and premed.

Gerhart's mother, Lori, who ran her own day care and had the kids help out, initially was told she was having three boys. She was thrilled because she'd always dreamed of having nine boys. Not until a late-term ultrasound did she find out the triplets would be girls.

"She wasn't too happy about it, but now she is," Gerhart said.

Her teammates now call her "Ice T" or "Vanilla Ice." And those nicknames sure beat "Toby's little sister." And she doesn't mind not being recognized as a Stanford celebrity the way her big brother is.

"And I don't ever want to be," she said.

(Not in any particular order -- yet):

0, You Know Me, Al -- Ring Lardner

1. The Boys of Summer -- Roger Kahn

2. That Summer Game -- Roger Angell

3. Bang the Drum Slowly -- Mark Harris

4. My Giants -- Russ Hodges

5. Nine Innings -- Daniel Okrent

6. Willie's Time -- Charles Einstein

7. The Miracle at Coogan's Bluff -- Thomas Kiernan

8. The Natural -- Bernard Malamud

9. A Season in the Sun -- Roger Kahn

10. Five Seasons -- Roger Angell

11. The Heart of the Order -- Thomas Boswell

12 , Pitching in a Pinch -- Christy Mathewson

13, Babe Ruth and the American Dream -- Ken Sobel

14, Baseball When the Grass was Real -- Donald Honig

15, No Cheering in the Press Box -- Jerome Holtzman

16, The New York Yankees: An Informal History -- Frank Graham

17, Stolen Season -- David Lamb

18, Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues -- William Brashler

19, Baseball and Mr. Spalding -- Arthur Bartlett

20, Judge Landis and 25 years of baseball -- J.G. Taylor Spink

21, Only the Ball was White -- Robert Peterson

22, Even the Browns -- William Mead

Baseball Codes -- Jason Turbow wth Michael Duca
Stadium Stories: San Francisco 49ers -- Dennis Georgatos
Game of My Life: San Francisco 49ers -- Dennis Georgatos
West Coast Bodybuilding Scene: The Golden Era -- Dick Draper
Rough Magic -- Lowell Cohn
The Original San Francisco Giants -- Steve Bitker
The Lonely Heroes -- Merv Harris
Strictly Business -- Roger Craig and Garry Niver
They Cleared the Lane: The NBA's Black Pioneers -- Ron Thomas
The Giants Encyclopedia -- Tom Schott and Nick Peters
Miracle at Candlestick Park -- Nick Peters
San Francisco Giants Almanac -- Nick Peters
North Shore Chronicles: Big-Wave Surfing in Hawaii -- Bruce Jenkins
A Good Man: The Pete Newell Story -- Bruce Jenkins
Goodbye: In Search of Gordon Jenkins -- Bruce Jenkins
The Thinking Fan's Guide to Baseball, Revised Edition (Hall of Fame Edition, No. 3) -- Leonard Koppett
The Man in the Dugout -- Leonard Koppett
The Rise and Fall of the Press Box -- Leonard Koppett
The New York Mets: The Whole Story -- Leonard Koppett
Koppett's Concise History of Major League Baseball -- Leonard Koppett
How to Cheat in Sports: Professional Tricks Exposed! -- Scott Ostler, et al
WINNIN' TIMES: THE MAGICAL JOURNEY OF THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS -- Scott Ostler
Magic by the Bay: How the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants Captured the Baseball World -- John Shea and John Hickey
Off Base: Confessions of a Thief -- Rickey Henderson and John Shea
The Art Spander Collection -- Art Spander
Wrigley Field: The Unauthorized Biography -- Stuart Shea
Pink Floyd FAQ: Everything Left to Know ... and More! -- Stuart Shea
Fab Four FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the Beatles ... and More! -- Stuart Shea and Robert Rodriguez
Rock & Roll's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Lame Lyrics, Egregious Egos, and Other Oddities -- Stuart Shea
The Spy: Baseball '98 -- Gary Gillette and Stuart Shea
The Insider 2000 (USA Today Baseball Weekly the Insider) -- Gillette, Shea, et al
Wrigley Season Ticket 2007: An Annual Guide to Chicago Cubs Baseball -- Stuart Shea
Skyline: One Season, One Team, One City -- Tim Keown
Orlando Cepeda: The Baby Bull -- Bob Stevens
The Giants of San Francisco -- Art Rosenbaum and Bob Stevens
Glenn Dickey's 49ers: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the NFL's Greatest Dynasty -- Glenn Dickey
Sports Great Jerry Rice (Sports Great Books) -- Glenn Dickey
The Great No-Hitters -- Glenn Dickey
The History of the World Series Since 1903 -- Glenn Dickey
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters -- Joan Ryan
Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball -- Howard Bryant
The Forty Niners: 50th Anniversary Collectors' Edition -- Joe Hession
The Last Baseball Town: How Campbell, California achieved the unprecedented, and still unduplicated, in American youth baseball -- Chuck Hildebrand
Dick Davey: A Basketball Life Richly Led -- Chuck Hildebrand
Bronco Sundays -- Chuck Hildebrand
San Francisco 49ers: Where Have You Gone? -- Matt Maiocco
"Lady in the Locker Room"/Uncovering the Oakland Athletics -- Susan Fornoff
The Great Book of San Francisco Bay Area Sports Lists -- Damon Bruce

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http://baseballsnatcher.mlblogs.com/ -- Mainly about the Colorado Rockies.

http://usawaterpolo.org/ -- No sweat.

http://treebeard31.wordpress.com/ -- Just plain weird.

http://skirmisher.org/ -- "The strange, the weird, the funny . . . "

http://crave4pizza.blogspot.com/ -- last update Sept. 17, 2009 but still . . .

http://watchlivestreamshow.blogspot.com/ -- and why not?

http://imadivaprincess.wordpress.com/diva-princess-home/ -- just because.

http://www.tennisguru.net/ -- Because we all need a 'Guru."

http://streampinoy.info/ -- television for the masses.

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