Tag Archives: Jim Hickman

What an unlikely quartet

Most total bases by a Dodger at Dodger Stadium against the Cubs involves four of the most unlikely players.  We had to drop down to nine total bases to even find four. Only one player has managed a double-digit total base game against the Cubs at Dodger Stadium. Player Date Rslt PA R H 2B HR TB …

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Players Who Died, died

The madcap poetic romp through  Jim Carrol’s People who Died, died always struck me long before I knew anything about the Basketball Diaries. Jim wrote this iconic song in 1980, and Jim himself died in 2009 of a simple heart attack. People live, people die, these are the baseball players who died in 2016, and here …

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