Philadelphia Phillies Spring Training Tickets - Preseason Overview
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The world champion Phillies come into the next season with a lot to be excited about. Even though winning the second one is much harder than winning the first, the Phillies seem to have made the right moves to keep in contention. Plus, it’s not like the Phillies have rested on their laurels, so fans [...]
Los Angeles Dodgers Spring Training Tickets - Preseason Overview
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The Dodgers won the National League West in 2008, then won a series in the playoffs but got derailed by the eventual World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies in the NLCS. Usually a team like the Dodgers would have just a few tweaks to make before the next season to get back into title contention, but [...]
Arizona Diamondbacks Spring Training Tickets - Preseason Outlook
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Arizona Diamondbacks fans miss out on the opportunity to ponder their team’s past season on the road trip out to spring training. Teams like the Giants, Dodgers, the Rockies, and Mariners- their fans get to drive for hours through the desert thinking about the highlights and the lowlights of the 2008 season as they [...]
San Francisco Giants Spring Training Tickets - Preseason Outlook
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In 2008 the San Francisco Giants finished in fourth place in the NL West with an overall record of 72-90. This past season saw a one game improvement from the year previous for a team that hasn’t won over 75 games since 2004. Still, there were some very good reasons to buy Giants tickets [...]
Colorado Rockies Spring Training Tickets - Preseason Outlook
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Colorado Rockies fans always make it out to the spring training games in Arizona in big numbers. Not only are the games relatively close to Denver (just a short road trip south to the desert), but the Rockies always seem to have a good outlook heading into the next season. The same is the [...]
Baseball World Cup 2009 - Tournament Review
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The 28th Edition of the Baseball World Cup will be commencing on September 9 up to 27th September 2009. This event will be hosted by seven European countries and a total of twenty teams will be participating. It is not the very first time that the game is being held on this continent, it has [...]
Atlanta Braves Spring Training Tickets - Preseason Overview
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The Atlanta Braves finished in fourth place in the National League East, with an overall record of 72-90. Yet their Pythagorean win-loss record, the number of wins and losses that a team scoring as many runs and allowing as many runs as the Braves did last season, is 79-83. Why did the Braves lose [...]
International Baseball - The World Baseball Classic Comes This March
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The World Baseball Classic is an international baseball tournament that is sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation and showcases the best players in the world representing their home countries and territories. It started in March of 2006 when 486 players with 235 of them coming from teams in Major League Baseball representing 16 teams from [...]
MLB Tickets - The Home Run: What It Meant and What It Means Today
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For more than a century, fans of the great American pastime have been purchasing MLB tickets to see players hit home runs. While home runs didn’t truly become prominent until George Herman “Babe” Ruth began hitting more dingers in a season than entire teams, the home run quickly grew into one of sports’ most [...]
How Baseball Became Popular in Japan
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Sometime between 1867 and 1873, an American professor, Horace Williams, in what is now the University of Tokyo, is credited with introducing baseball to the country of Japan. Williams came to Japan to teach English and American History, but his sports interest is what has affected most of Japan. American colleague Albert Bates, Kaitaku education [...]