I've given a lot less to baseball than it's given to me. And the greatest gift that I've received from baseball is the way that the people in the game have responded to me with their warmth and with their friendship.-Ernie Harwell, upon being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame (2 August, 1980 ( Read more... )

This has to be one of the weirdest linescores in the history of baseball:

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Detroit 0 0 1 1 4 1 0 4 1 0 0 0 2 - 14 22 2
Cleveland 1 4 3 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 12 19 4You spend nine innings knocking each other all over the park, racking up a ridiculous 12 runs apiece. Then you play four ( Read more... )

I was thinking about the recent futility of the Lions and the seemingly-past stretch of bad years for the Tigers. Here's what I came up with ( Read more... )