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Kirby Puckett Dies After Having a Stroke !

Long time Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame Star Kirby Puckett died March 6th from a Stroke occurring on March 5th.  He was 45 years old. He will be missed by all!

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The Chicago Bears remain undefeated after an amazing comeback victory over The Arizona Cardinals 24-23 on Monday Night October 16th.
 
Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts remain undefeated.
 
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U of Ky and University of Louisville gettimg ready for strong seasons!
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Special Article ... Excellent Read ... Many Thanks Mike !!
For the Love of the Game
By, Mike Hazel My memory goes back to the year the University of Kentucky basketball team became a very interpersonal part of my psyche. The year was 1978, and my blood started running true blue. The sound of the basketball being arithmetically bounced across the across the hardwood floors, and the swishing sound of the net as the ball is tediously and precisely tossed high into the air to make another basket. The sounds of the game still echoes in my ear and mind.
 
The Mecca of basketball, Rupp Arena was filled with screaming fans rooting on some of the most memorable Wildcats of days gone by. The masters of the game; Melvin Turpin, the great Kyle Macy and Sam Bowie will continue to play forever in the back of mind. Coach, Joe B. Hall stalks the sidelines sending the Wildcats of yesteryear to many Big Blue victories. Joe B. Hall led the University of Kentucky to their fifth NCAA championship that year, finishing out his career at UK in the eighties  with a record of 297 wins and 100 losses.
 
I was about ten or eleven when my dad and I started watching the Wildcats on the RCA family color television. The excitement of winning was instilled into the very fiber of my mind by my father. The love of sports and Rupp Arena was brought to life from that old color television screen. I had the best seat in Rupp Arena from my vantage point looking towards the old television. I would comfortably get all sacked out on the living room floor.  My bag of potato chips in one hand, and my bottle of orange crush soda in the other I would comfortably be transported into the home of the University of Kentucky Wildcats, Rupp Arena.
 
I will be thirty eight this year, but my dad has established a love for basketball which has never died. Kentucky did not always play as well as they should have, and those were the times when dad would usually break out the Rolaids and the Winston Cigarettes and wade out those most memorable heart clinchers to the very end. So did it really matter if the Wildcats lost or won the game?  Yes, but for the love of the game is why my father and I keep rooting the Cats on to their next victory.
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As we sit here on the first day of Kwanzaa, the second day of Chanukah and the day after Christmas, The Baseball Bulletin is filled with the spirit of giving and wanted to extend these gifts to our favorite baseball teams.
 
To the Atlanta Braves we give an elixir of youth, not for any of their players, but rather to give to John Schuerholz and Bobby Cox more seasons running the franchise.
 
To the New York Yankees we give another decade with no revenue sharing, no salary cap and the right to buy any and all free agents, especially former Red Sox.
 
To the Oakland A's we give another $20 million to play with provided it is used to secure your own home grown players such as Barry Zito, Eric Chavez, and Bobby Crosby before the team is either forced to trade them or lose them to free agency.
 
To the Colorado Rockies we give patience to see this version of the five year plan past its second season.  
 
To the Chicago Cubs we give a season with a healthy pitching staff
 
To the Boston Red Sox we give the power to veto any moves made by the New York Yankees until such time as a salary cap exists.
 
To the Chicago White Sox we give an entire season to relish being the champions of baseball.
 
To the New York Mets we give the back page of the New York Post.
 
To the Seattle Mariners we give the exclusive right to negotiate with any player coming to the US from Japan.
 
To the Los Angeles Dodgers we give a return to the glories of the past.
 
To the Kansas City Royals with give full revenue sharing
 
To the Houston Astros we give an offense.
 
To the Philadelphia Phillies we give an ace starter
 
To the Pittsburgh Pirates we give another million fans
 
To the Tampa Bay Devil Rays we give hope
 
To the Florida Marlins we give a second decade, as successful on the field as the first
 
To the Cleveland Indians we give a closer who will be able to get the final out in Game 7 of the World Series
 
To the Arizona Diamondbacks we give another free agent signing as successful as Randy Johnson
 
To the Minnesota Twins we give a new stadium paid in full by the taxpayers in Minnesota without a cent coming out of the Twins coffers.
 
To the San Francisco Giants we give a healthy Barry Bonds for an entire season
 
To the Texas Rangers we give a major league quality pitching staff.
 
To the Cincinnati Reds we give a blueprint on how to become competitive without resorting to a fire sale every two or three seasons.
 
To the Toronto Blue Jays we give a chance-or maybe they took that on their own.
 
To the San Diego Padres we give players who will like to play in Petco Park and won't whine about how it cuts down on their home runs.
 
To the Detroit Tigers we give the wisdom to not spend foolishly on the free agent market
 
To the Milwaukee Brewers we give a winning season for the first time in fourteen seasons
 
To the Anaheim Angels we give resolution to the lawsuit over the team's name.
 
To the Washington Nationals we give an actual owner
 
To the Baltimore Orioles we give a starting rotation
 
And last but not least
To the St. Louis Cardinals we give a postseason to match the regular season.
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Yesteryear's Baseball  
 
Mickey Mantles Youth

Mickey Mantle

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

 Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 August 13, 1995) was an American baseball player, regarded as one of the best of all time. He played his entire professional career for the New York Yankees
 

Mickey Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma. He was named in honor of Mickey Cochrane, the Hall of Fame catcher from the Detroit Tigers, by his father, who was an amateur player and fervent fan. Apparently his father was not aware that Cochrane's real name was Gordon. In later life, Mickey Mantle expressed great relief that his father had not known Cochrane's real first name, as he would have hated to be named Gordon. Mantle always spoke warmly of his beloved father and said he was the bravest man he ever knew. "No boy ever loved his father more," he said. Sadly, his father died of cancer at the age of 39, just as his son was starting his career. Mantle said one of the great heartaches of his life was that he never told his father he loved him.

When Mantle was four years old, the family moved to the nearby town of Commerce, Oklahoma. Mantle was an all-around athlete at Commerce High School, playing basketball and football in addition to his first love, baseball. It was his football playing that nearly ended his athletic career, and indeed his life. Kicked in the shin during a game, Mantle's leg soon became infected with osteomyelitis, a crippling disease that would have been incurable just a few years earlier. A midnight ride to Tulsa enabled Mantle to be treated with newly available penicillin, saving his leg from amputation. He would suffer from the effects of the disease for the rest of his life, and it would lead to many other injuries that hampered his accomplishments. Additionally, Mantle's osteomyelitic condition exempted him from military service, a fact which caused him to become very unpopular with fans, as his earliest days in baseball coincided with the Korean War. This unpopularity, mainly with older fans, would dramatically reverse after he finished second to Roger Maris in the pursuit of Babe Ruth's home run record in 1961. He spent the last years of his career as a wildly popular icon of the entire sport.

 
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