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Bobby Cox Is Peerless, but Why?

ATLANTA -- He's better than Tony La Russa and Lou Piniella of now and Sparky Anderson and Earl Weaver of yore. He's better than any of those New York Yankees managers, ranging from Miller Huggins to Joe McCarthy to Casey Stengel to Billy Martin to Joe Torre. Bobby Cox is just the best. Ever. And, yes, I know. After...

The Dugout: It's Tribe Time Now, Part 7

The "youth movement" continues in Los Angeles, as Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez continue their countrywide trip to reunite the championship hopeful 1997 Cleveland Indians on the championship hopeful 2009 Dodgers. If you've missed where they've been so far, check out the numbered links below. If you haven't, and you are still...

Operation Shutdown Is Over! Derek Bell Returns!

What would you say if I told you that Oil Can Boyd had a barnstorming team that travelled around playing minor-league teams? Or that former Expo stalwarts Delino Deshields and Marquis Grissom (I know their best days came elsewhere, I just like remembering that the Expos existed every once in a while) were playing on said...

Ryan Klesko Went Hunting With Deion Sanders!

As mjd said about the women's college basketball tournament getting more TV time than the men's tournament, this is "one of the things in the world that truly makes no sense." Ryan Klesko, who last was relevant in baseball discussions pretty much when Otis Nixon was, is the star of the "Ryan Klesko's Adventures" on The...

Background on Marquis Grissom

Marquis Deon Grissom (; born April 17, 1967) is a former American Major League Baseball player. In 2009, Grissom served as the first base coach for the Washington Nationals.

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