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The best baseball players born on Sept. 16

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September 16, 2025

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Sept. 16:

The best baseball players born on June 29

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June 29, 2025

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for June 29.

The best baseball players born on June 15

@ismailtweets
June 15, 2025

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for June 15.

Yankee Stadium plays host to epic night of music history

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August 12, 2023

NEW YORK -- The party on Friday night was at the perfect venue: Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, the Boogie Down, where it all began. And some of the biggest names in rap turned out in a living time capsule to celebrate a Golden Anniversary with the mega concert Hip

That day the Phils and Cubs combined for 45 runs

In a 1979 game featuring 2 future Cy Youngs, outs were very hard to come by
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May 17, 2023

There's an old joke in Chicago -- told pre-2016 -- that goes like this: A guy walks into a bar, and the bartender says, "Hey, Cubs scored 20 today!" And the guy replies, "Did they win?" On May 17, 1979, they didn't. They actually scored 22 that day, powered by

Padres rotation mimics Darvish's every move

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May 2, 2022

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, what does it mean when there are four people mimicking your every move? Well, Yu Darvish was on the receiving end of such high praise before the Padres' game against the Pirates had even started on Sunday -- and it was classic

Watch Baez throw bat at pitch in dirt, get a hit

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April 8, 2019

With the sun shining bright at a packed Wrigley Field for the Cubs' home opener on Monday afternoon, the fans got a magic show from Javier Báez. The aptly nicknamed "El Mago" somehow got a piece of a low-and-outside pitch that appeared to hit the ground, throwing his bat at