The Hardball Times talks about a forgotten player (doesn't someone do a series along those lines?) that had one of the best seasons that you've likely not known about.
Diamond Jim Gentile was a powerhitting first baseman that spent most of the 50's blocked in the Dodgers organization by Gil Hodges and looked to possibly be one of those 4A players that you hear about from time to time.
Gentile's 1961 (.302,46 HR and 141 RBI) was the apex of a pretty strong five year run in Baltimore that was followed by two mediocre seasons and then sent Gentile to Japan.
Interesting article....
The Ashland Eagles were eliminated from the Division II playoffs after an undefeated regular season and I didn't get around to posting this soon,but the Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote about the Eagles head man Lee Owens.
Owens was the former head coach at Akron and spent time on the Ohio State coaching staff in the John Cooper years.
Despite the disappointing ending,quite a season for Ashland football....
Our buddy Big Don sends us this article from CBS Sports on the lost dawgs in Cleveland and discusses lots of things going back to the move of the team to Baltimore and people that it affected to this day.
The most interesting part was the guy that collects and restores stadium seats.
I've always wanted a Municipal Stadium and Richfield Coliseum seat and I can see a room in my house just like the one this fellow is pictured in!!!
Kevin Jones backs up our prediction for the Browns (3-13) with a look in Cleveland Scene magazine in which he asserts the Browns were set up to fail by their horrible 2014 draft..
People tell me that I'm naturally pessimistic on the Browns and they may often be true,but I looked at this teams schedule and roster and it didn't take much to pick 4-12 or worse...
In just at the gun,Tyson Fury was stripped of his IBF heavyweight title that he won from Wladimir Klitschko for taking the Klitschko rematch rather than number one contender Vylacheslav Glazkov.
Glazkov is a dubious contender anyway as he won a decision over Steve Cunningham to earn the slot that I thought Cunningham clearly deserved.
Glazkov will fight for the vacant belt vs Charles Martin,who fights for Al Haymon and his PBC,so who promotes that fight will be interesting.
Martin was scheduled to fight this Saturday against former Olympian Dominic Breazeale on a PBC card on NBC,but has pulled out in order to take the title shot vs Glazkov....
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