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| Sunset—July 12, 2012. |
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Fredrick W. Thayer, captain of the Harvard University baseball squad, patented the catcher's mask—pretty cool.
I got that from
Baseball Reference. I started following them on
Twitter a few weeks ago and love their "
Bullpen" wiki. It's a collection of crowd sourced events, births and deaths by day and year and features gems like that. Did you know
Chet "The Jet" Lemon was born today too: 1955.
Pitchers and catchers are
reporting to spring training this week. A handful of teams arrived yesterday, most will be in camp today or tomorrow.
The Diamondbacks start full-squad workouts Friday.
I'm ready for baseball, anxious. It's like the night before Christmas except "Christmas" (read: Opening Day) is 48 days away. Soon enough I'll be able to watch split-squad spring games on MLB.tv. That'll hold me I guess.
I spent the morning going through last season's Aces archive. I haven't posted a best of collection yet and the start of spring seems as good a reason as any.
So here are 20 of my favorite photos. Enjoy!
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| Opening night—April 5, 2012. |
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| Sam Demel. |
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| Archibald. |
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| Sacramento's line up card. |
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| Mike Jacobs. |
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| Aces in the outfield. |
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Cooper, one of Brett's Big Leaguers.
He gave the players orange bracelets.
Many wore them all season. |
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| Harbin's revenge. |
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| Your 2012 Triple-A National Champions. |
And here's a few more that didn't make the cut:
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