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Author: Phillip Tutor

Baseball fan. St. Louis Cardinals fan. Raised on baseball in Memphis. Faux expert on baseball in Alabama. Lifetime .200 hitter, good glove, below-average arm.
  • Jacksonville State baseball

At JSU, a new stadium fills a major void

  • by Phillip Tutor
  • Posted on February 17, 2019February 17, 2019

I’m sure there is a college baseball team somewhere in the United States that needed…

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  • MLB

100 pictures on Jackie Robinson’s 100th birthday

  • by Phillip Tutor
  • Posted on February 4, 2019February 3, 2019

Last Thursday — Jan. 31, 2019 — would have been Jackie Robinson’s 100th birthday. Retrospectives…

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  • Memphis baseball

Memphis’ Gagliano Field isn’t named for the Cards’ Gagliano. I was oblivious.

  • by Phillip Tutor
  • Posted on February 3, 2019February 3, 2019

Like a dedicated flat-earther, I’ve always believed I played my last high school baseball game…

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  • MLB

What I’m watching today: baseball home movies to get me through the winter

  • by Phillip Tutor
  • Posted on January 20, 2019

My wife loves winter. I hate it. I hate the cold. I hate the darkness. I hate having to layer up like a Siberian fisherman just to walk the dog. (And I live in Alabama. Imagine how ornery I’d be about this if I lived in Maine.) Plus, baseball is dormant.

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  • Memphis baseball

I drove 5 hours to see A-Rod play. He didn’t.

  • by Phillip Tutor
  • Posted on January 12, 2019January 15, 2019

One of baseball’s nostalgic joys is fans’ personal “I Was There When” lists. Like snowflakes…

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  • MLB

What I’m watching today: Whiteyball, Bob Gibson as a Brave and the ’82 NLCS

  • by Phillip Tutor
  • Posted on December 28, 2018December 28, 2018

If the 1982 National League Championship Series were a beer, it’d be lukewarm and flat. You’d either love it — for some unknown reason — or despise it.
I’m the former. I love it.

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  • MLB

In search of Jarry Park, but finding Gary Carter

  • by Phillip Tutor
  • Posted on December 23, 2018December 23, 2018

A few months ago — nine, actually — my son, Nicholas, and I tried to find Jarry Park, the first home of the Montreal Expos. We didn’t find it.

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  • Anniston baseball

Braves owner Ted Turner thought he could manage. So did this Anniston Rams fan.

  • by Phillip Tutor
  • Posted on December 9, 2018December 10, 2018

Unlike Atlanta’s Ted Turner, Anniston’s Marvin Fowler didn’t own the local baseball team that was…

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  • Anniston baseball

The worst month ever for baseball in Anniston, Alabama

  • by Phillip Tutor
  • Posted on December 8, 2018December 8, 2018

Tony Smeraglia is Anniston’s Thurman Munson. Granted, he didn’t hit like Munson, a career .292…

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  • Memphis baseball

When the Memphis Blues were orange

  • by Phillip Tutor
  • Posted on December 1, 2018December 7, 2018

I thought I knew all of the major stuff about Memphis baseball. (I’m obsessed with it, after all.) But when I saw that orange Astros-styled cap and Blues shooting-star jersey themed after the Astros’ iconic 1960s look, I was stumped. Were they real?

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  • At JSU, a new stadium fills a major void
  • 100 pictures on Jackie Robinson’s 100th birthday
  • Memphis’ Gagliano Field isn’t named for the Cards’ Gagliano. I was oblivious.
  • What I’m watching today: baseball home movies to get me through the winter
  • I drove 5 hours to see A-Rod play. He didn’t.

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