Showing posts with label Jim Thome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jim Thome. Show all posts
Friday, March 22, 2019

EXTRA: How baseball has changed

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I dug out my copy of “Ball Four,” the diary that one-time major league pitcher Jim Bouton wrote of his 1969 season, and his recollections of...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

EXTRA: Thome in, Big Z out, Sosa survives for consideration another year

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Jim Thome, the slugging ballplayer who spent nearly four of his 22 years as a major league baseball player with the Chicago White Sox, lea...
Monday, January 15, 2018

612 or 609 – are 3 home runs really the difference for baseball’s Hall of Fame?

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Chicago ballplayer likely to get into Hall In just over a week, the Baseball Hall of Fame will announce which ballplayers of the 1990s w...
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

EXTRA: Chicago wins its second World Series title of the 21st Century

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It seems the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday didn’t manage to blow it big time. They won a World Series championship – their first in 108 years. A...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Thome helps keep Legislature busy

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So just what DO our state legislators do with their time when they’re not addressing the lack of a state budget for the current fiscal yea...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Thome didn’t ‘do in’ the White Sox

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It is a vivid memory from recent baseball seasons past. The two big bats of the Chicago White Sox – Paul Konerko and Jim Thome – both manage...