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Jim Henneman says old-school, old-fashioned or just plain old baseball fans have a particular reason to be excited about the 2022 World Series — there’s a good chance there will be no “openers” posing as starting pitchers.
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Jim Henneman remembers the first time he read anything about Bryce Harper, back when the star was just a teenage sensation. And while Henneman was a bit skeptical about Harper at first, he quickly got a prescient dose of reality.
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We could have had a World Series the way it used to be … and the way it will be, writes Jim Henneman, by introducing the new shift rule to the largest audience at the earliest possible time.
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Jim Henneman says the early stages of baseball’s fall season have provided a clear message — great games can endure gimmicks but don’t need them.
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With Aaron Judge closing in on the American League single-season home run record, PressBox contributor Jim Henneman recently remembered Roger Maris’ quest to break Babe Ruth’s record — and its connections to Baltimore — for Baltimore magazine.
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Jim Henneman argues that we’ve never quite seen anything like the sum of the parts of the trades consummated at this year’s MLB trade deadline. He’s not so sure that’s testimony to the creativity of the teams involved — or an indictment of the system itself.
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It is possible to spin a positive outlook on the Orioles’ trade of Trey Mancini to the Houston Astros, Jim Henneman writes, by starting with the player himself.
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Jim Henneman checks in with some thoughts at the All-Star break, from the amateur draft to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
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Jim Henneman explains why he is now comfortable giving up his traditionalist badge for most of the rules changes that have been instituted in baseball recently … but he still isn’t budging on one particular item.
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The lawsuit recently filed by Louis Angelos against his brother John and mother Georgia reminds Jim Henneman of another Orioles dustup that took place almost a half century ago.
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