Is this the summer of scandal or what?
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Picking Splinters: In Part, Giambi Right
Nicholas F. Benton: Bonds Shrugged
This Tuesday in San Francisco, Barry Bonds jacked the 745th home run of his career, bringing him within 10 of what for the better part of a century has been considered the premiere accomplishment in professional baseball, if not all sport: to become the all-time homer king.
Picking Splinters: Sports Mathematics Splinters Style
Do you remember what you were thinking at this point in the 1998 season? Do you remember the energy surrounding Mark McGwire’s pursuit of Roger Maris’s record for home runs in a single season? The record that made the number 61 sacred? Do you remember the fist pumps and the […]
