Another All-Star Game is upon us, which means guys are faking hamstring injuries to get out of playing in it and baseball writers are pontificating about how to make it great again.
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Mike Dunn played his senior year of high school baseball at Cimarron-Memorial, and was the second of six College of Southern Coyotes to make the major leagues. In December, he signed a $19 million contract with the Colorado Rockies.
Russ Nixon was a lifetime baseball man, having spent 55 years in the game as a player, coach and manager. He was 81 when he died Nov. 9 following a lengthy illness.
Before this week, the last time I heard from Shane Victorino’s people was July, during the All-Star break. One of his reps said Victorino, who makes his offseason home here, had just become the all-time RBI leader for a major league ballplayer born in Hawaii, thereby breaking Mike Lum’s record, and would I like to talk to him?