Regardless of what happens in Tuesday’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game, whether it be a great game or a debacle, the naming of knuckleballer Tim Wakefield to his first All-Star team is a great story and an honor well-deserved by a classy player.
At forty-two, Wakefield is the second oldest first-time All-Star, behind only the legendary [...]

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What does it take to win a Gold Glove these days?  Hard to believe, but the Red Sox’s Kevin Youkilis, who set a record this year for consecutive errorless games at first base with 238, lost out to Tampa Bay’s Carlos Pena.  Pena had a fine year, but really?  Youkilis’s record spans almost two full [...]