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Rangers, Angels and a pitcher who deserved better

  • by Phillip Tutor
  • Posted on April 13, 2020

There was a baseball game in 1980 played in the Texas’ September heat that featured…

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  • MLB

The $375 baseball trinket I didn’t buy

  • by Phillip Tutor
  • Posted on March 4, 2020

JUPITER, Fla. — For $375 and an outsized slice of guilt, I could have bought…

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‘Shut up’, Astros fans yell back

  • by Phillip Tutor
  • Posted on March 2, 2020March 3, 2020

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Astros, by virtue of their misdeeds and attitudes and…

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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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Tommy Lasorda didn’t hang up on me

  • by Phillip Tutor
  • Posted on October 28, 2018January 8, 2021

I called Tommy Lasorda.

No, let’s clarify that.

Tommy Lasorda took my phone call.

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