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Ichiro Watch: 1,986 Hits, With 14 To Go To Reach 2,000 Hits

Ichiro Watch: 1,986 Hits, With 14 To Go To Reach 2,000 Hits   September 4, 2009, Ichiro Career Hits:  1, 986 Ichiro Hits This Season:  191   When Ichiro reaches 2,000 career hits, he will be the first the first (and only) player to do so in the first nine years of his Major League [...]

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Ichiro Watch: 1,983 Hits, With 17 To Go To Reach 2,000 Hits

Ichiro Watch: 1,983 Hits, With 17 To Go To Reach 2,000 Hits   Today, August 21, 2009, Ichiro registered one hit in five at-bats in Seattle’s 9-4 win in Cleveland. Ichiro Career Hits:  1, 983 Ichiro Hits This Season:  188   When Ichiro reaches 2,000 career hits, he will be the first the first (and only) player to [...]

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Ichiro Watch: 1,982 Hits, With 18 To Go To Reach 2,000 Hits

Ichiro Watch: 1,982 Hits, With 18 To Go To Reach 2,000 Hits   Today, August 20, 2009, Ichiro registered one hit in four at-bats in Seattle’s 7-6 loss in Detroit in a rain-delayed game. Ichiro Career Hits:  1, 982 Ichiro Hits This Season:  182   When Ichiro reaches 2,000 career hits, he will be the first the first [...]

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Nicole Bobek’s Life on Bail: Working In A Strip Mall

Nicole Bobek, the 1995 U.S. Figure Skating Champion, is now living in Jupiter, Florida with her mother, working in a store selling fancy soaps and trinkets to tourists.  Jana, her mother, who was herself a figure skater in her native Czechoslovakia, owns the store, called Belle Maison. The store is in a strip mall in [...]

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Ichiro Watch: 1,981 Hits, With 19 To Go To Reach 2,000 Hits

Ichiro Suzuki, by far the most successful and most popular Japanese player in the Major Leagues, is inching closer to a record-setting 2,000 Major League career hits.  With his output in the Mariners win over Detroit ( Aug. 18, 2009), Ichiro needs only 19 more hits to become the first player Major League Baseball’s 133-year [...]

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Nicole Bobek Jail Photo-New Costume Is Jailhouse Green

Nicole Bobek, former figure-skating champion, is shown below in a video hookup from jail as she is charged with conspiracy to distribute methamphetine. Bobek is spending time in the Hudson County jail.

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Michael Vick No Longer Grounded; Will Fly With Eagles

The Philadelphia Eagles took a big gamble on August 13, 2009, with the signing of convicted felon and ex-con Michael Vick to a two-year contract to play professional football again. The Eagles are taking a big chance on giving Vick a second chance.  Undoubtedly some fans will swear off any team that signs him; appalled [...]

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Yankees’ Cabrera Hits for the Cycle

Melky Cabrera became the 15th Yankees player and  first Yank in 14 years to hit for the cycle.  His hitting  led New York to an 8-5 victory over the White Sox in Chicago yesterday, August 2, 2009.  A cycle in baseball means that a hitter, in this case Melky Cabrera, hits safely four times in the [...]

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Buehrle Perfect Game is Latest in Long Line of White Sox No-Hitters and Perfect Games

Mark Buehrle has had a good week.  First, he gets to play in the All-Star Game.  Then, he gets to shake hands with President Obama, the White Sox Fan-In-Chief.  Then, to top it off, he gets a phone call from the president today.  Oh, and the reason for the phone call is pretty cool too: [...]

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Sportshistory Deals Poker and Peter Eastgate into the Games

  Two new pages added to the Historyguy Sportshistory section:  A new page highlighting the world of professional poker playing, with emphasis on the World Series of Poker (WSOP); and a new biography page on the reigning WSOP Champion, Peter Eastgate. Go to: http://www.historyguy.com/sportshistory/poker.htm and http://www.historyguy.com/sportshistory/eastgate_peter.htm

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