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• Bo knows ... diving?
The wild story of Bo Jackson leaving an Auburn dive team speechless...2024
• Turkey Time Trivia

Photo by Bruce Bennett Studios via Getty Images Studios/Getty Images Take a break from football Tired of watching football and eating turkey? I’m not yet, but I’m getting there. While were waiting for the hot stove to heat up, here is another round of obscure baseball trivia. General Baseball Trivia There are only three players since 1900 who have hit a home run, stolen a base and thro...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: November 5

Ron Schueler hoists the 1993 AL West champions pennant with Ozzie Guillén. That season ended up being the peak of Schueler’s 10-year term as White Sox GM. | Ron Vesely/Getty Images Ron Schueler takes the reins 1976 The White Sox lost five players in the American League expansion draft, with third baseman Bill Stein going fifth overall to the Seattle Mariners. Seattle also nabbed pitcher Ro...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: September 27

Frank Isbell put his stamp on the strangest doubleheader in White Sox history, on this day, 119 years ago. | Chicago History Museum/Getty Images The weirdest doubleheader in team history ends in a split 1905 Simply put, this was the craziest doubleheader in White Sox history. In the opener in Boston, the American Bill Dineen no-hit the South Siders, 2-0, at the soggy Huntington Avenue Base...2024
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• Bengals officially sign Lawrence Guy; KJ Henry, Shedrick Jackson released

Philip G. Pavely-Imagn Images Help for the defensive line is on the way! The Cincinnati Bengals made several roster moves on Tuesday afternoon, including officially signing defensive tackle Lawrence guy to the 53-man active roster. To compensate for the extra man, the Bengals have also waived defensive end KJ Henry, who was a second-year player acquired on waivers on August 28. He took so...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Jim Bouton records first win since un-retiring

He went eight years between wins! Braves Franchise History 1914: After being ejected for swearing, Braves shortstop Johnny Evers claims he was talking to the ball and not umpire Mal Eason. He will still receive a three-day suspension. 1935: The Braves snap a 14-game losing streak with a 6-4 win over the Reds. 1978: Thirty-eight year old Jim Bouton picks up his first win since 1970 in a 4-1 victo...2024
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• Bengals officially sign Lawrence Guy; KJ Henry, Shedrick Jackson released
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• This Day in Braves History: Jim Bouton records first win since un-retiring
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• Today in White Sox History: September 2

Luis Aparicio (No. 11, sliding into third) and the White Sox could not be stopped during a robust fifth inning of a doubleheader sweep on this day, 65 years ago. | Set Number: X6051 The Go-Go club can’t stop scoring 1918 In a season-ending doubleheader (the 1918 season ended early because of World War I) at Detroit, Buck Weaver rapped out eight hits in 10 at-bats. The Sox would lose the ga...2024
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• Shedrick Jackson, Jalen Davis, Cam Grandy, and Devin Cochran join Bengals practice squad, per report

Albert Cesare/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK Practice squad moves! The Cincinnati Bengals haven’t announced their practice squad yet, but we’ve got a few confirmed names of those who will be on it. According to WLWT’s Charlie Clifford, the Bengals have added wide receiver Shedrick Jackson, offensive tackle Devin Cochran, and cornerback Jalen Davis to the practice squad. All three were am...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Rico Brogna announces his retirement

Braves Franchise History 1991 - Two naked fans run onto the field at Fulton County Stadium and slide into home plate. The Braves beat the Cubs 12-2. 2001 - Rico Brogna announces his retirement, effective immediately. He will be replaced on the roster by Bernard Gilkey. Undeterred, Greg Maddux will log his 34th career shutout in a 4-0 win. MLB History 1903 - Rube Waddell is arrested for assaultin...2024
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• Past All-Star games with four or more Royals

Royalty comes to the All-Star Game. This year, the Royals will have four representatives at the 2024 All-Star Game to be played at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. Salvador Perez earns All-Star honors for the ninth time while Bobby Witt Jr., Seth Lugo, and Cole Ragans are part of the 32 players going to the All-Star Game for the first time. It is just the seventh time in Royals history the te...2024
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• Independence Day Rumblings - News for July 4, 2024

Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images Not to be confused with the 1996 Will Smith vehicle. Michael Wacha was excellent in Kansas City’s win last night: Wacha allowed just two hits Wednesday, working around three walks with eight strikeouts. On his 97th and final pitch, with two outs and a runner on first in the sixth inning, Wacha struck out Josh Lowe swinging on a cutter, which Wacha relied o...2024
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• A look back at the Royals’ 2019 draft class, five years later

Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images Could this be the best draft class in Royals history? Flags fly forever, but the post-championship hangover hit the Royals hard in 2018. Once the core of the championship team departed, what was left were over-the-hill veterans and not-ready-for-prime-time players. The 2018 Royals were dreadful, losing 104 games, but their reward for enduring that misery w...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 1, 2024

Garfield is right about Mondays, lasagna, and much more | Photo by Steve Parsons - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images Very nice series over the weekend! Ed note: I was mistaken on Friday. I guess I will be doing one day of Rumblings this month as Max is out for a few days. That said, I’m leaving on vacation this week so we’re not getting the full Friday Rumblings experience. Also, I ...2024
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• My summer baseball reading list

Just take a look, it’s in a book. When I was about 10 years old, I got really into baseball. I was a bookish kid already, so anytime I went to the library I checked out two kinds of books - Matt Christopher novels and baseball biographies. Matt Christopher wrote a series of fictional kids books about baseball like Catcher with a Glass Arm and The Kid Who Only Hit Homers, which I loved. I also love...2024
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• Who is John Sherman?

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Like the guy next door, except richer In the past, I’ve written stories critical of how the Royals organization has handled their downtown stadium negotiations. And while I don’t back away from the ham-handed way that process has been going, I did start to wonder if perhaps I have gotten the wrong idea about Royals owner John Sherman. After all, I’ve never m...2024
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• Ultimate Fan: Broncos need to take down the Raiders

Set Number: X164422 TK1 A winning season on the line and a chance to beat a huge AFC West nemesis? No question that ultimate fans want a big Broncos’ win on Sunday. It’s a bittersweet Ultimate Fan Guide this week as this is the final one of the 2023-24 season. Being denied a post-season run for the eighth time since the Super Bowl win in 2016 stings, but at least the Broncos have a chance...2024
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• Yoan Moncada Can't Stop the Hype: 'He's Got a Following Everywhere We Go'
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• Red Sox Cuban Phenom Yoan Moncada More Than Flashy Cars, Hype and Muscles
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• NFL Urban Legends: Dan Marino, Drug Rumors and the Draft-Day Slide
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• Jameis Winston's Elaborate Campaign to Be Trusted as the NFL Draft's No. 1 Pick
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"Bo Jackson, who electrified Royals fans with his moonshot home runs, track star speed, and never-before-seen baseball highlights, has been elected to the Royals Hall of Fame."

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"Jackson is Bo Jackson’s nephew, which really goes to prove that curse has ended."

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"Bo Jackson helped pay for the funerals of the 19 children and two teachers killed in the Uvalde school massacre in May."

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"Former Raiders CEO Amy Trask excited about Najee Harris, but not ready to start Bo Jackson comparisons"

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"Bo Jackson ran up a wall."

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"Looking for someone who really had a measurable effect on […] The post KICKS HALL OF FAME: Bo Jackson, You Already Know 🏆 appeared first on SLAMonline."

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"While he has hinted that he wants to pull a Bo Jackson at some point, the idea of Wilson playing in any meaningful baseball games seems unrealistic."

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"Bo Jackson: I never would have played football"

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"Thirty years ago today, Bo Jackson chose baseball over the NFL"

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"Injuries derailed Bo Jackson's NFL career after just four baseball-truncated seasons and 2,782 yards."

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"The run also ranks as the fourth longest in Raiders franchise history behind Terrelle Pryor and two from Bo Jackson."

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• Today in White Sox History: November 5
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• Shedrick Jackson, Jalen Davis, Cam Grandy, and Devin Cochran join Bengals practice squad, per report
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• Barely Relevant: The first cut is the deepest, cut down day, and The Rock

Photo by Rio Giancarlo/Getty Images Let’s explore some of the guys who didn’t make it. Author’s note: This is the third episode of my weekly column, Barely Relevant. Cat Stevens sings: “I know that it’s not easy to be calm when you’ve found something going on” in the song “Father and Son.” Like a person with multiple personality disorder - he switches POVs between a wise older dad and an...2024
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• I came around

Completing the 1970 Topps set is not just the end of a set-building journey for me, but the end of a road to realization that took much longer than the approximately seven years I spent completing the set.I will never say 1970 Topps is my favorite set. Even among Topps sets of the 1970s I can probably put it above only 1979. But I'm a long way from what I thought of the set as a youngster or...2024
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• The National Ballpark Museum

Must see for fans On a recent trip to Denver to see the Royals play, more on that later, my son and I had the opportunity to make a visit to the National Ballpark Museum. The Museum is located at 1940 Blake Street, just a long home run from Coors Field. The museum is the brainchild of one Bruce “B” Hellerstein, who started putting this astounding collection together in the 1980s, securing the curr...2024
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• Royals Rundown: Shaun Newkirk talks Royals first half, Hunter Harvey trade

In 1989, Bo Jackson, who played for the Royals, became the first and only player to be named an All-Star in both Major League Baseball and the NFL. Shaun Newkirk joins Jacob Milham and Jeremy Greco to discuss the Kansas City Royals! They will be talking about their thoughts on Kansas City’s performance in the first half of the season, predicting the Royals’ All-Star MVP, and analyzing what needs t...2024
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• Marshawn Lynch’s acting career is gaining massive momentum

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images Is Marshawn Lynch the next great NFL player turned actor? You heard it here first, folks: highly loved former Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch and briefly hyped ex-Seahawk Brian Bosworth are teaming up. Not on the field, of course (as Marshawn’s brief stint as a Raiders running back would surely awaken some horrible Bo Jackson flashbac...2024
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• Independence Day Rumblings - News for July 4, 2024
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• Today in White Sox History: September 27
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• Shedrick Jackson, Jalen Davis, Cam Grandy, and Devin Cochran join Bengals practice squad, per report
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• Lorenzen outpitches his old team, Royals win 7-1

Bobby Witt Jr. celebrates with Salvador Perez after hitting a home run in the fourth inning. Don’t look now, but Bobby and the Bullpen had a fantastic night. Michael Lorenzen used to be a Cincinnati Red, years ago. Today marked his first opportunity to pitch against his old team at their home stadium and he appeared to relish it. It wasn’t exactly a dominant performance, but as the Royals’...2024
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• 2003 Topps Retired check-in

My card collection is being taken up a notch today. Literally. The side of my house with the cardroom has been slowly sinking a tiny bit since we moved in nearly 4 years ago, and today the foundation is being worked on to secure the house and raise it back up a little. It's been a nagging concern of mine for a while now, so I'm glad it's being taken care of. But yeah, another expensive adventure i...2024
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• A look back at the Royals’ 2019 draft class, five years later
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• Game thread LXXXIV - Guardians at Royals

Cole Ragans plots his next pitch | Photo by Reed Hoffmann/Getty Images Can the Royals secure a series victory against their division rivals? Even the most Royals-blue-glasses-wearing Royals fans couldn’t have expected the team to take the first two of this four-game series against the Guardians. Those of you who listen to the Royals Rundown podcast know that I was basically begging them to...2024
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• There will never be another Bo Jackson

Photo by Ron Vesely/Getty Images The star goes into the Royals Hall of Fame this weekend. Baseball history has long been subject to folklore and exaggeration. Did Mickey Mantle actually hit a ball 600 feet in Washington DC? (Probably not) Did Babe Ruth call his shot in the 1932 World Series? (maybe?) Did Satchel Paige really intentionally walk the bases loaded so he could face Josh Gibson ...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: June 22

With a slingshot delivery like this, it’s no wonder Jim Scott whiffed a club-record 15 Browns on this day, 111 years ago. | Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images The South Side hurlers deserved win No. 1,000 — twice 1913 Behind Ed Walsh’s shutout, the White Sox beat the St. Louis Browns, 2-0, in the second game of a doubleheader at Comiskey Pa...2024
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• Who is John Sherman?
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• Today in White Sox History: November 5
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• This Day in Braves History: Jim Bouton records first win since un-retiring
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• Barely Relevant: The first cut is the deepest, cut down day, and The Rock
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• I came around
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• 2024 Home Run Derby open thread

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Bobby Witt Jr. gonna hit some dongs! Baseball’s brightest stars have assembled at Globe Life Park, home of the Texas Rangers for this year’s All-Star festivities. Tonight, sluggers will square off in the annual Home Run Derby. Joining the participants is Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr., who will get to hit in his native Texas, where his father spent ye...2024
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• Marshawn Lynch’s acting career is gaining massive momentum
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• Bobby Witt Jr. to participate in the Home Run Derby

Photo by Nick Cammett/Getty Images The phenom will become the fifth Royals hitter to participate. On Sunday, Bobby Witt Jr. was selected to his first All-Star game, to be held in his native Texas. Today we found out that he will also participate in the Home Run Derby, to be held July 15 at 7 p.m. CT on ESPN. See you all in Texas.. #HRDerby ⭐️ pic.twitter.com/7KmxIZaEks— Bobby Witt Jr (...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 1, 2024
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• My summer baseball reading list
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• Bo Jackson helps pay for Uvalde victims' funerals

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• NFL Urban Legends: Bo Jackson and the Too-Fast-to-Be-True 40-Yard Dash
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• Russell Wilson Speaks on Potentially Playing Both Football and Baseball
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• Bo Jackson donated $170,000 to pay for funerals of Uvalde victims
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced shortly after the Uvalde school massacre in May that an anonymous donor was paying for the funerals of the 19 children and two teachers. Bo Jackson was the man behind the money, it was revealed this week, flying to Uvalde with a friend to present a check for $170,000 to [more]...2022
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• Bo Jackson to be inducted into Royals Hall of Fame

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images Bo knows Hall of Fames. Bo Jackson, who electrified Royals fans with his moonshot home runs, track star speed, and never-before-seen baseball highlights, has been elected to the Royals Hall of Fame. He will be inducted in a pre-game ceremony before a June 29 game against the Cleveland Guardians. In all, Jackson played five years with the Royals, hittin...2024
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• Thirty years ago today, Bo Jackson chose baseball over the NFL
Two professional sports were altered when perhaps the greatest athlete of his generation picked the Royals over the Buccaneers....2016
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• Raiders' Latavius Murray Breaks Away for 90-Yard TD vs. Chiefs
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• Top 100 Prospect Discussion Prep: Perspective is Everything
A wave of excitement ran through the baseball community like Bo Jackson bursting for the corner and up the sideline. Our collective breaths were held hostage once again by the state of Florida (why is it always Florida?) as we waited for our Wanderwall to save our batting averages. Turns out we got Taylor Walls, much to the surprise of nobody who’s followed Tampa for two seconds but certainly to...2021
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• DeAngelo Williams, Like Marcus Allen, Is an Underappreciated Superstar
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• Yoan Moncada Can't Stop the Hype: 'He's Got a Following Everywhere We Go'
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• Week 13 Waiver Wire: Examining Top Fantasy Football Targets
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• Today in White Sox History: November 5
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• Today in White Sox History: September 27
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• Today in White Sox History: September 2
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• Lorenzen outpitches his old team, Royals win 7-1
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• The National Ballpark Museum
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• This Day in Braves History: Rico Brogna announces his retirement
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• Independence Day Rumblings - News for July 4, 2024
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• It’s time for the Royals to honor George Spriggs

Our only alumni The Royals have made some significant moves this spring, inducting Bo Jackson, John Schuerholz and Cedric Tallis into the team’s Hall of Fame. Now that Tallis has been inducted, I’ll need to find a new windmill to tilt at. Bringing attention to the Tallis oversight has been one of my main passions the last five years and I’m very happy for the Tallis family to see this long-overdu...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: March 15th

Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1941 - Approximately 6,000 fans watch the St. Louis Browns defeat the Boston Braves in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. MLB History 1885 - A lower court in New York decides that playing baseball on Sunday is a crime. The ruling will be overturned, but it will be appealed. 1901 - Third baseman Jimmy Collins leaves t...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 15, 2024

Salvy Splashes are not just for MLB | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Asia Baseball Previews start today! Max was, of course, all over the notable news that last couple of days. On Wednesday, the big story was that Bo Jackson would be inducted into the Royals HOF. Yesterday, it was announced that former GMs Cedric Tallis and John Schuerholz would join him. Just wanting to link to some st...2024
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• Royals trade partner history: The White Sox

Photo by Duane Burleson/Getty Images Here we are now going to the south side. This is a series that looks back at their trade history with each team in baseball. So far, we have looked back at trades with the Braves, Cubs, Diamondbacks, and Orioles. Today we look at the history of deals with the Chicago White Sox. Total number of Royals/White Sox trades: 19 Dayton Moore dealt with the Whi...2024
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• Cedric Tallis belongs in the Royals Hall of Fame

Time to right a wrong Last year I made a vow to write an annual story about why the Royals’ first General Manager, Cedric Tallis, should be in the Royals Hall of Fame. Like it or not, it’s that time of year. Many of us have speculated as to why Tallis has been snubbed. His credentials are far too impressive for just a plain oversight, so there must be another underlying reason. The most common the...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta signs Derek Lowe to four-year deal

Photo by Marc Serota/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1959 - John Quinn resigns as general manager of the Milwaukee Braves and immediately accepts a similar position with the Phillies. 1982 - Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson are elected to the Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility. Aaron fell nine votes shy of becoming the first-ever unanimous selection and his 97.8 election p...2024
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• The Linc - PFF proposes Eagles trade for Kevin Byard

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Philadelphia Eagles news and links for 10/19/23. Let’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles links ... 10 trades NFL teams should make ahead of the 2023 trade deadline - PFFTennessee Titans S Kevin Byard → Philadelphia Eagles. Trade compensation: 2025 third-round pick Contract acquired: Two years, $16,322,222 ($0 guaranteed). Byard’s 2023 sa...2023
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