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Cake’s Presidential Quickies: Chet Arthur
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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 Abraham, a Ulysses and a Rutherford. This places Chet near...
Cake’s Presidential Quickies: Harry Truman
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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 France during World War I. The artillery brigade he served...
Cake’s Presidential Quickies: Millard Fillmore
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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 issues, which distinguished him from Taylor, who had no public...
Cake’s Presidential Quickies: Grover Cleveland
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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 western New York; his birth name was Stephen Grover Cleveland,...

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Doug Byzewski’s “A Biography in a Thousand Players”

A Biography in 1,000 Players No. 115 Carlos Beltran (Number 9 Center Field)
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Wow it has been awhile since we seen a center fielder. I would think they were under rated but have four in the top 11. I probably have DiMaggio underrated, but that is because of playing time. I also have...
A Biography in 1,000 Players No. 114 Hoyt Wilhelm (Number 3 Relief Pitcher)
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I like knuckleball pitchers a lot. They are fun to watch. Sometimes the hitters get so frustrated. It is hard to do as these hitters have such skill. Still when you have a pitch no one knows where it is...
A Biography in 1,000 Players No. 113 Darrell Evans (Number 9 Third Base)
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I told the story of Hank Aaron how I picked the inning and number of men on for his 715th homerun. I not only picked the number of men who would be on (one) but who it was going to...
A Biography in 1,000 Players No. 112 Bobby Grich (Number 13 Second Base)
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Bobby Grich is loved by sabermetric people who surely love him. They probably would have them ahead a few of the second basemen ahead of him starting with Biggio on down. However, when you look at the traditional stats they...
A Biography in 1,000 Players No. 111 Enos Slaughter (Number 12 Right Field)
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Slaughter missed three straight years because of WWII. I gave bonus points for those missing years for all the players, but they were reduced so it wasn’t what they normally earned in their best seasons. It was basically used to...
A Biography in 1,000 Players Players 111-120
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Here are the players I ranked 111th thru 120th:   111 Enos Slaughter 846 RF 12 112 Bobby Grich 842 2B 13 113 Darrell Evans 841 3B 10 114 Hoyt Wilhelm 840 RP 3 115 Carlos Beltran 837 CF 9...
A Biography in 1,000 Players No. 110 Lou Whitaker (Number 12 Second Base)
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In 1978 Ralph Houk announce it was going to be his last year with the Tigers before the start of the season. There was a young 2nd baseman age 21 and young shortstop age 20 in the Tiger chain with...

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