Season 9
Cake’s Presidential Quickies
Today's Chief Executive is James K. Polk. Polk was born in Tennessee and built a successful law practice there. He was elected to the US House in 1825 and rose to become Speaker; to this day, he is the only...
Today's Chief Executive is Chester (or Chet, as I like to call him) Arthur, the 21st President of the United States. He was succeeded by a Grover, a Teddy, a Bennie, two Willies and a Woody and preceded by an...
Today's Chief Executive is Harry Truman, failed haberdasher and artillery battery commander. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri in 1884 and worked on the family farm into his twenties, when he was drafted into the Army and served in...
Today’s featured Chief is Millard Fillmore, the 13th President of the United States. Fillmore was a congressman from New York State when he was chosen to be Zachary Taylor’s running mate. Fillmore was chosen because he had actual positions on...
Today's chief executive is Grover Cleveland, the 22nd AND 24th President of the United States. Cleveland is the only president ever that the people said "Hey, how about we elect that guy we had before?" Cleveland was born in...
Doug Byzewski’s “A Biography in a Thousand Players”
Mike Mussina would have had a tougher time getting into the hall of fame 20 years ago. The use of Sabermetrics made people realize how good a pitcher he was. The interesting thing was that there were complaints he never...
Justin Verlander won his 2 Cy Young Awards 8 years apart. I wonder if that is close to a record. I gave more points for the Cy Young Award starting in 2006. Verlander probably benefits the most. I was wrong...
Ok for my many fans. I am going a lot out of order here. The other night I thought of a great article about Juan Gonzalez and decided I should do it now. I could write the article without putting...
Gary Sheffield play for 8 teams in 22 years in that hurts his hall of fame chances. He was more a Florida Marlin playing there six seasons. However even there he played in only part of two of the seasons...
Mickey Cochrane was a great catcher, but his career was so short. He played only 13 years and 2 of those years were where he had a nervous breakdown the first season and received a beanball that affected his play...
Here are the players I ranked 121at thru 130th: 121 Mickey Cochrane 827 C 12 122 Gary Sheffield 827 RF 13 123 Justin Verlander 825 P 24 124 Mike Mussina 824 P 25 125 Fred Clarke 822 LF 12 126...
Imagine you just got married and you fly to San Francisco for you honeymoon with the bride you courted for years. You have an important management job with your Father-in-Law who you have a good relationship. The plane lands and...
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