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Sources: Beckett Baseball Card Monthly/Beckett Baseball magazines dated April 1990, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010; Beckett.com, with permission. *The 1986 Donruss Jose Canseco RC hit $105 in ...
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In 1933, the Goudey Gum Company of Boston issued baseball cards with players biographies on the backs and was the first to put baseball cards in bubble gum. [10] The 1933 Goudey set remains one of the most popular and affordable vintage sets to this day. [11] Bowman Gum of Philadelphia issued its first baseball cards in 1948.
The Phillies entered the offseason with a strategy of "reloading, not rebuilding". [2] According to Matt Gelb of The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Bold best describes what Rubén Amaro Jr. has done so far in putting together the 2014 Phillies and it sure is appropriate that the word ends with the letters O-L-D." [3] The team wanted to re-sign Carlos Ruiz (or find another catcher) and sign a right ...
The 2015 Los Angeles Dodgers season was the 126th for the franchise in Major League Baseball, and their 58th season in Los Angeles.The team underwent a change of direction this season as general manager Ned Colletti was fired and replaced by Farhan Zaidi and new president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman.
Major League Baseball recorded its 2,000,000th strikeout on July 27 when the Indians' Danny Salazar struck out the Royals' Norichika Aoki in the seventh inning. [100] The Cleveland Indians recorded their 9,000th franchise victory with a win against the Kansas City Royals on August 30. They become the 11th franchise to amass this many victories ...
The 2012 CBA, after seeing teams go over more than three times, added a fourth taxation level when teams went over the limit four or more times. The 2016 CBA removed this fourth tier, opting instead to raise the third tier's tax rate. The 2016 CBA also added two surcharge thresholds, with teams paying surcharge rates on top of the luxury tax ...
Zack Greinke allowed only two runs (one earned) in eight innings on July 3 at Coors Field and a Juan Uribe RBI single in the top of the ninth gave the Dodgers a 3–2 win over the Rockies. [135] On the fourth of July , Clayton Kershaw allowed only two hits and no runs in eight innings while striking out eight in the team's 9–0 win. [ 136 ]