Unlike Matsuzaka, Darvish has a workhorse frame and shouldn’t find himself wearing down once the season enters it’s final month. His 232 innings pitched in 2011 should be taken into consideration and have him limited to around 200 for the 2012 season regardless of where he ends up. But he should be an innings eater #2 starter. If the team posting Ace dollars is expecting an Ace for their rotation then someone is going to be disappointed. But if we’re looking for a ready now #2 starter with innings eating ability just entering his prime, not to mention a huge following fan base, then Darvish is the guy to go after. http://baseballinstinct.com/2011/12/12/prospect-instinct-yu-darvish-rhp-free-agent-%e3%83%80%e3%83%ab%e3%83%93%e3%83%83%e3%82%b7%e3%83%a5-%e6%9c%89
For the second time in 15 months, the College of Southern Idaho baseball family has been struck by tragedy. Former CSI shortstop Tanner Craswell was shot dead south of Calgary, Alberta, early Thursday morning, according to The Guardian of Prince Edward Island, Craswell’s native province. Craswell, who played for CSI in 2009-10, was one of five people shot in what local authorities are calling a murder-suicide, according to reports. In total four people were killed, with the fifth victim recovering in a Calgary hospital. http://magicvalley.com/sports/baseball/former-college-of-southern-idaho-baseball-player-killed-in-canada/article_2dbe1848-2781-11e1-b0fd-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz1gi0IZT3b
Baseball is a much older game than you might think.Medieval manuscripts show ball games with bats while a game called "base-ball" appears in a picture published in London in 1744.Baseball is also mentioned in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey,which began writing in 1798.The game of rounders was first described 30 years later and this or a similar game was known among British settlers in America.Abner Doubleday is sometimes said to have invented baseball in 1839,but Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr drew up the games rules in 1845.He founded the first team, the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York. http://newfacts2011.blogspot.com/2011/12/sports-origin.html
The end of the UTB-TSC baseball program has sent ripples throughout Brownsville, unearthing again the tensions of failed partnership negotiations, leaving students in a lurch, raising questions about how the decision was made and disturbing residents and alumni. It appears that the one overwhelmingly shared sentiment is that the end of the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College baseball program is a monumental disappointment. “I just think as part of a family, which as a university we’re supposed to be, this is kind of like removing a family member without giving them a chance to save themselves,” Matt Warner, a recent UTB-TSC baseball team alumni based out of Austin, said. http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/articles/baseball-134932-program-tsc.html
There was another player who once took a drug test, the first one in known baseball history. It was paid for by then-MLB Commisioner Judge Kenesaw Moutian Landis, and it came back clean. For some reason, Landis and several of the commisioners that followed him, refused to make the results public, or provide ther player with some level of justice. Instead, Babe Dahlgren, once considered the best fielding first baseman in baseball, was sentenced to a life as a baseball vagabond, and even after his playing days, plagued with the inaction of a baseball industry that turned it back on him a long time ago. http://www.baseballdigest.com/2011/12/15/the-first-mlb-drug-test-and-the-other-side-of-branch-rickey
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