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	<title>Baseball Ink</title>
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		<title>Average WAR for 2013 Hall of Fame Candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Led by Barry Bonds, this year’s ballot features five avgWAR 5+ players.  Sammy Sosa ain’t one of ‘em, despite his 609 career home runs. Jeff Bagwell leads the pack of non-first-year candidates. José Mesa looks to be this year’s Lenny Harris. We have converted a baseball player’s career Wins Above Replacement (WAR) into a rate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2013 Pre-Integration Era Ballot &#8211; avgWAR vs Auditioning for Cooperstown</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our last post, we introduced Andre Lower’s new book, &#34;Auditioning for Cooperstown:&#160; Rating Baseball’s Stars for the Hall of Fame.&#34; Today we compare Lower’s rating system with Baseball Ink’s avgWAR scores for the six players on the 2013 Pre-Integration Era ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame: Lower writes: Bill Dahlen ranks 49th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auditioning for Cooperstown &#8211; Who Makes The Cut?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andre Lower over at BaseballByPositions.com has released his new book, &#8220;Auditioning for Cooperstown:  Rating Baseball&#8217;s Stars for the Hall of Fame,&#8221; in which all 3,000+ qualifying players are systematically evaluated as to whether they belong in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Using a formula based primarily on Win Shares, players are equally rated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Million-Dollar Sock?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Douglas J. Gladstone Seven years ago, American-born Canadian children&#8217;s author Robert Munsch and his illustrator, Michael Martchenko, published a children&#8217;s book about a girl named Tina, who loves her brand-new socks so much that she doesn&#8217;t take them off. Titled, appropriately enough,&#8221;Smelly Socks,&#8221; (Scholastic Cartwheel Books, 2005), The Globe and Mail had nothing but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hooves on First</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(from press release) FLUSHING, N.Y., August 30, 2012 – The New York Mets today announced they will partner with Seraphim12 Foundation on “Hooves on First” Night Monday, September 10 at Citi Field when the Mets host the Washington Nationals at 7:10 pm.  The fundraiser will raise awareness about the treatment of horses. Tickets are available [...]]]></description>
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