CYBERSPORTS PURE AND SIMPLE, A WAY TO GIVE SOMETHING BACK.Byline: - Tom Hoffarth They do this for the love of the game, and these homespun Web sites about baseball reflect that. Here's our current top 5: --BaseballSavvy.com: Howard Cole of Calabasas describes himself as a ``starving writer hanging in as best I can,'' and this outlet for commentaries helps keep the former L.A. sports radio Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sporting events. A popular format with an almost exclusively male demographic in most areas, sports radio is characterized by an often-boisterous on-air style and producer sane. He notes his most prized possession is an original Dodgers bobblehead with No. 32 that looks ``absolutely nothing like Sandy Koufax'' and lost half its head in the Northridge earthquake The Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, 1994 at 4:31 AM Pacific Standard Time in the city of Los Angeles, California. The earthquake had a "strong" moment magnitude of 6. . --Sarah's Dodger place: Sarah Morris, who lived in Pasadena until moving to Anderson, Texas Anderson is a city in Grimes County, Texas, United States. The population was 257 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Grimes CountyGR6. Geography Anderson is located at (30.487081, -95. , with her mother, credits her site (www.dodgerplace.com) as saving her from the depths that can come from having cerebral palsy cerebral palsy (sərē`brəl pôl`zē), disability caused by brain damage before or during birth or in the first years, resulting in a loss of voluntary muscular control and coordination. . The Dodgers graciously have provided a link to this off their official site (www.dodgers.com). --DodgerBlues.com: ``Celebrating the futility, disappointment and humor'' of the team, here's a very warped place (apparently anonymously maintained) that conducts polls such as: ``People have trouble finding their seats at Dodger Stadium because a) the row numbers are confusing, b) the aisle numbers are confusing, c) the ushers are confusing, d) people are (bleeping bleep n. A brief high-pitched sound, as from an electronic device. v. bleeped, bleep·ing, bleeps v.intr. To emit a bleep or bleeps. v.tr. ) idiots.'' --DickieThon.com: Most fan pages can get pretty hero worshipy, but here ``it's about baseball, dammit dam·mit interj. Used to express anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment. [Alteration of damn it.] ,'' as the logo says. Aside from a shrine to the onetime Angels infielder, there's an outstanding literary review section. --HallowedGround.org: A place to find things you probably didn't know existed, such as Jackie Robinson's home marker at 121 Pepper St. in Pasadena, the Wrigley Monument on Catalina Island, Chuck Connors' and John Beradino's stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame The following is a list of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, including the category and location of each star. There is also a ; both should be consistent with the list on the Hollywood Walk of Fame website maintained by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. , and the Ted Williams Parkway and his boyhood home in San Diego. In just one year, the site has compiled a list of 700 places with a link to baseball history - but only one grave site, that belonging to William Hulbert, who started the National League in 1876. He's resting under a two-foot tall, granite, baseball-shaped headstone at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. |
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