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Damn, I totally re-did this list subsequently.

McGraw's really interesting here. He really helped pitch the Mets into a hole, then really helped pitch them out of it. How do you recognize such a season?

Wonderful work, KC.Keep on a-rockin' me, Baby.

Donn Clendenon finished 13th in MVP voting this season, ahead of Agee, Harrelson, and Seaver.

That was my usual source. But it seems to stop at a certain point.F'rinstance, there's been a variation on the Mets logo in recent years with the cityscape in black. That's not there.They also need to distinguish different logo types -- hat insigniae, breastplates, on-deck circle, etc.

I've been away from the comp all day.Let me check. No, no new mail from KC.

Somebody submit the Landing Strip story NOW!!!!

Clearly, I sorely underestimated these guys. I had in my head the fun but foolish notion that Vinny Castilla was right behind Tony Womack on the list of players you sign when you don't want to succeed. But clearly there's something going on. It's also so typical of DC to go after Guillen after he burned his bridges with Anaheim right before the playoffs. Mike Tyson is such a sociopath maniac that Nevada won't let him fight anymore? Let's get him here!For years the Expos would improve then sell off, improve then sell off, and now they seem to have benefitted from the last (though certainly not the best) harvest of young Expos talent, while suddenly being able to retain that talent and add a few more outside players.I still think their GM is a retrograde old boy, though.

Welcome back, Walter.

Comments come in context. Knowing who the poster is or has been, and what they have previously written, helps frame their comments in a greater context.Context aids clarity. Clarity aids understanding. Wisdom aids wisdom. Yadda.

Jersey Shore is a handle that goes back to the MOFo.

The missing MOFo name for Kasey is "Mezzman," but he used a lot of his CPF handles.Archie Griffin/Jim Rockford/McGarett/Higgins also seems to be among the missing.

Gold Glove shut down operations.Something tells me he may re-enter the business now that school's out for summer. See the remains of his once-proud empire at http://kmbumb.people.wm.edu/.

This is fantastic work. I still need to remind myself who seawolf and sharpie are.

Matsui.

C'mon. You're pleading the alternative now. You come up with one accusation and rather than acknowledge its unfairness when confronted, you just move to another.

The Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles is in the process of putting its archives online, searchable and free, the way the good life would have it. They concentrate on scholarly sporting journals and journals which focus on the amateur world. But they've been gradually digitizing back issues of Baseball Magazine, starting with the beginning of the 20th century. My first search gave me this article on Walter Johnson, using that great pre-depression baseball prose.Who Is the King of Pitchers?Is it Mathewson?Is itMarquard?Is it Walsh?Is it Wood?No — Noneof These.They are All Great,but Not the Great-est,for the King of Them All is Walter Johnson,the Greatest Twirler in the Baseball World The story goes on to congratulate the magazine on their previous work.THE BASEBALL MAGAZINE sometime ago presented the name of Ty Cobb as the greatest player on the diamond.This was a bold step and it took genius courage to take it, for the career of a major league player is about the most uncertain thing in the world to bank on."Genius courage."Anyhow, it was fun to search for "Tom Seaver," but just get a bunch of articles about amateur golf featuring his champion father.

I think his hypothesis was and is that high school pitchers tend to need about 500-600 innings before being able to pitch consistently effectively in the majors.

I don't think "Lord Petersen" is on record as having predicted any such thing.