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By JOHN JAMES MARSHALL/Designated Writers I was negative three years old when Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in World…

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By JOHN JAMES MARSHALL/Designated Writers When Major League Baseball adopted the current wild card format of one-game-for-the-marbles, I hated it. Thought…

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(In honor of Halloween and with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe and The Raven…) Once upon a June night dreary, while…

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(Ran originally in Sunday editions of The Times and The News-Star September 29, 2019.) Every now and then you step out…

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By TEDDY ALLEN/Designated Writers The day was filled with glee in the bustling DW Offices because one of our own celebrated…

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By JOHN JAMES MARSHALL/Designated Writers In a few days, Joe Maddon is going to be fired as manager of the Chicago…

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This originally ran in the September 22, 2019 Sunday editions of The Times and The News Star. My spousal unit and…

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By TEDDY ALLEN/Designated Writers ESPN, the Entertaining and Sports Programming Network, turned 40 this month. I know, I know. You’re saying,…

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