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Gender Bending at the Olympics

In a day and age when athletes from all over the sports world will do anything they can and need to do to get a leg up on the competition, steriods and other performance enhancing drugs can run rampid...

Written by Mike Kelley about about 1 year ago 136 reads 1 comments
Homer Happy Josh Hamilton

It is as if a half season putting up monster stats wasn't enough for Texas Ranger outfield Josh Hamilton. Hamilton, who closed out the first half of the season with a ...

Written by Mike Kelley about about 1 year ago 284 reads 1 comments
Baseball: Minor Leaguer Traded for 10 Bats

Mike Kelley reports on the craziest trade he has heard about in some time.

Written by Mike Kelley about about 1 year ago 218 reads 0 comments
Watch out Teddy Ball Game, here comes Chipper

It has been nearly 70 years since Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941. Hundreds of Hall of Fame players have come and gone since then; many of them baseball icons, but none of them have hit as well ...

Written by Mike Kelley about about 1 year ago 279 reads 0 comments
No Vacancy on Colorado Rockies' DL as Three More Go Down

There must be something in that Rocky Mountain air. This weekend, on May 25, The Colorado Rockies placed All-Star left fielder Matt Holliday on the disabled list with a strained left hamstring...

Written by Mike Kelley about about 1 year ago 467 reads 0 comments
The Baby Faces of Baseball: the youth movement is here to stay

As the baseball season approaches the two month mark, it seems as though a new age is before us. Sorry Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Julio Franco, the youth movement in baseball is here and ...

Written by Mike Kelley about about 1 year ago 300 reads 0 comments
Tampa Bay baseball: A Decade of Defeat

As the Tampa Bay Rays enter their second decade of baseball the first with the new nickname, I thought it might be fun to look at the best players at each position over the last 10 years...

Written by Mike Kelley about about 1 year ago 786 reads 0 comments
Arizona Diamondbacks: All-Decade Roster

This season marks the beginning of the second decade of baseball for the Arizona Diamondbacks. The team, which joined the Colorado Rockies, San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco ...

Written by Mike Kelley about about 1 year ago 1,335 reads 0 comments
Big League Crystal

It is a sunny Thursday afternoon in Tampa, Legends Field is packed with Yankee fans, the popcorn popping and Coke flowing. Pittsburgh Pirates' starting pitcher Paul Maholm had just finished his first inning warmup tosses...

Written by Mike Kelley about about 1 year ago 763 reads 0 comments
Batter Up: Pitchers Who Carry a Big Stick

In the days of the designated hitter and overused bullpens, only a small number of the pitchers in the big leagues regularly step up to the plate to take their hacks. Many of these players, while excellent athletes, end up making fools out of themselves..

Written by Mike Kelley about about 1 year ago 556 reads 2 comments
Red Sox Nation Flap: Hank Steinbrenner Talks the Talk

Without even a pitch being thrown yet this season, the Red Sox and Yankees rivalry has already started, and this one has nothing to do with batting stats, or pitching performances...

Written by Mike Kelley about about 1 year ago 519 reads 0 comments
Wrigley Field: What's in a Name?

Talk about mixed reactions for Cub faithfuls...Just two weeks after Chicago pitcher Ryan Dempster predicted an end to the Cubs' 100-year World Championship drought, Sam Zell, chief executive ...

Written by Mike Kelley about about 1 year ago 582 reads 2 comments
Baseball: A game of uncertainties? You bet!

Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson learned this lesson the hard way: baseball is not a betting man's game. After all, baseball is a sport where a batter is deemed successful if he fails ...

Written by Mike Kelley about over 3 years ago 245 reads 0 comments

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Mike Kelley Article Archive

Gender Bending at the Olympics

Homer Happy Josh Hamilton

Baseball: Minor Leaguer Traded for 10 Bats

Watch out Teddy Ball Game, here comes Chipper

No Vacancy on Colorado Rockies' DL as Three More Go Down

The Baby Faces of Baseball: the youth movement is here to stay

Tampa Bay baseball: A Decade of Defeat

Arizona Diamondbacks: All-Decade Roster

Big League Crystal

Batter Up: Pitchers Who Carry a Big Stick

Red Sox Nation Flap: Hank Steinbrenner Talks the Talk

Wrigley Field: What's in a Name?

Baseball: A game of uncertainties? You bet!

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