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Fouled balls…
Another “drug smuggling” incident thwarted… sort of. Former right fielder (Oakland “A”s and “Way too many to list”) and author Jose Canseco was detained by ICE agents for nine hours after the agents...
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Castañeda stikes out
Jorge Castañeda has always had more credibility with conservatives (or even “paleo-conservatives”) in the United States than with his own countrymen. Like many academics, he tends to put the cart...
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Miss Universe… meh… pero beisbol…
Must be Mexico’s week! Mexican baseball team Los Chicos swept the Ocala Monarchs from the diamond, by a score of 7 to 1, capturing the Cal Ripkin Division of the Babe Ruth League World Series. Rich...
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What if?
The Ciudad Obregón Yaquís just won the Mexico-Caribbean Series, which leads me to wonder… given that the Sonorans just knocked out the best teams from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, I’m...
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It’s only money
Carlos Slim lost EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS in four days. That’s about 83 million dollars an hour. Much of the loss is attributed to a decline in the value of the Peso against the dollar, but a drop in...
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Not all history makes the record books, even in baseball
Do you know who this is? A REAL baseball aficianado would of course recognize Ramon Bragaña. The right-hander pitched from 1928 to 1948 for several teams in the Cuban winter league, and from 1940 to...
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Field of bad dreams…
Yahoo baseball columnist Jeff Passan: GLENDALE, Ariz. – A team full of Mexican citizens and Mexican-Americans played a baseball game here Wednesday. This would be of little note in 49 other states. In...
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I went to the fights and a hockey baseball game broke out
Except maybe for the mining companies, who hire thugs to do their dirty work for them, you don’t expect Canadians to get physical with Mexicans. Or vice-versa. But, then again, being in Arizona tends...
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All men are not created equal… some are right-fielders
It was the first time in my life that I felt free. We could go anywhere we wanted, eat anywhere we wanted, do anything we wanted and not have to worry about anything. We just had a wonderful time and...
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Play Ball! (Post COVID)
The municipal government of Texcoco has budgeted 70 million pesos (about 175.000 US$) for the first national baseball academy, though Probeis, a program that has the personal support of President (and...
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