Contributed by Ryan Campbell
Events
2003 – Alex Rodriguez becomes the youngest player to hit 300 home runs.
2005 – Alex Sanchez is the first player publically identified under the new steroid policy, and is suspended for ten games.
Deaths
Phenomenal Smith (1952) and Sugar Cain (1975) had great nicknames.  Think we can try the latter out with Matt Cain?
1972 [...]

This week’s Tuesday Trivia is a great prize for the Fantasy Baseball enthusiast.  It is so good, I almost don’t want to give it up.  John Burnson’s 2010 Graphical Player is a fact filled book, laid out is easy to grasp graphs, with short pieces of commentary, really designed for the fantasy owner in need [...]

Someday I will be able to spend my off-season traveling around to all the baseball related dinners around the country.  Many honor the scouts, some honor the writer, and others are just charity related, either for RBI or the Baseball Assistance Team.  Last night was the Baseball Writer’s Dinner where all the “big hardware” such [...]

Our Friday featured fan this week has to be Soxfan1- sure he’s a White Sox fan, but he doesn’t seem happy about a Yankees victory.  Here is his comment from the Yankees win message board thread:
The evil empire still sucks!! If you spend more than twice as much as the average team you should win [...]

There is still discussion around that Alex Rodriguez hasn’t done enough to make him a true Yankee yet.  Unbelievable.  19 RBI’s in the World Series.  There may have been a time where one guy could carry a team to a World Series ring, but that time is not now.  The Phillies can hit, they can [...]