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1. Death of New Jersey baseball player puts spotlight on commotio cordis
(Health/Healthquest)

... the chest with a baseball in the gym at Blessed Sacrament School in Paterson. He was wearing an Easton chest protector, according to witnesses, while practicing with the Braves, a Professional Baseball ...

2. Baseball Hall of Fame should include Marvin Miller
(Sports/Professional)

...  There are other names that should get consideration are missing, one time Boston and Milwaukee Braves owner Lou Perini, one time Houston Colt 45s and Astros owner Roy Hofheinz and one time Kansas ...

3. Is sports the third rail of American society?
(Sports/Professional)

BY EVAN WEINER NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM THE BUSINESS AND POLITICS OF SPORTS Suppose for a moment that New York Gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino pitched for the Atlanta Braves or Ohio Congressional ...

4. What a loser!
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

The Padres in 5th? Braves in 4th? Cardinals taking the Central? CUBS IN SECOND? LOLOLOLOLOL Moron. ...

5. Next cable TV battle pits Time Warner against Disney
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Atlanta Braves and has a piece of the New York regional sports cable channel, SNY, along with the Mets ownership and another cable company Comcast. The deal with Major League Baseball is estimated to be ...

6. No state compares to Arizona’s sports business follies
(Sports/Professional)

... 13, 1953, Lou Perini moved his Boston Braves franchise to Milwaukee. Milwaukee officials were so desperate to fill the stadium that they gave Perini a contract which required him to pay $1,000 in rent ...

7. 34 years after joining NBA, the Nets are still struggling
(Sports/Professional)

... Kentucky owner John Y. Brown took a $3 million settlement. Brown used that money to purchase half of the NBA Buffalo Braves franchise. The rest of the ABA players were distributed throughout the league ...

8. Actor Jon Seda felt special connection to World War II hero John Basilone, in HBO’s ‘The Pacific’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... took the role of legendary World War II hero John Basilone in "The Pacific," HBO's $200 million miniseries. Seda wanted to do right by Basilone, who was one of the bravest and most well-known soldiers ...

9. Circle of life: Rebirth, death and resurrection
(Life/Style)

... popped seemingly at once. Cooler weather followed, retarding the fading of the earliest and bravest forsythias while the magnolias and dogwoods and other flowering trees caught up until there was a full ...

10. Major League Baseball's cable TV problem


(Sports/Professional)

... Braves on WTBS. Those teams started pocketing extra revenue and MSOs snapped up the stations has the games brought more subscribers. (Major League Baseball denied the sale of the Texas Rangers from ...

11. When the Dodgers and Jackie Robinson made history in New Jersey
(Sports/Professional)

... Walter O'Malley decided that what the Dodgers needed to compete with up-and-coming teams like the Braves was a new stadium, and he proposed that the city of New York build him one in downtown Brooklyn, ...

12. Why is Gov. Christie trying to turn us against our heroes?
(Opinion/Commentary)

... are denigrated. Just a few short years after watching the bravest and the finest go into two burning tall buildings, some have somehow decided they are greedy in the search for a decent middle-class ...

13. 2010 MLB Preview and Predictions: National League
(Sports/Professional)

... Braves (81-81) – Atlanta will say goodbye to Bobby Cox, managing his final season, and hello to phenom Jason Hayward. Hayward, just 20, won the right field job in the spring and he's the odds-on favorite ...

14. Panel OKs move to hasten payment to families of fallen cops, firemen
(N.J./State)

...  "This benefit is provided to our bravest police and firefighters who paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect us," Quigley said. "The heartbroken families they leave behind should not have to face added ...

15. U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear Washington Redskins case
(U.S./Nation)

... told IPS Monday. The U.S. football team has held the controversial moniker since 1933, when the Boston Braves were renamed the Boston Redskins in honour of their Sioux head coach William "Lone Star" Dietz. ...

16. David Wright
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... game-tying 2-run homer in Mets' 5/4/09 comeback over the Braves, followed by his double and RS that launched the Mets' win the next day. After finding his first-inning home run that buried the Phillies ...

17. Obama announces launch of college tuition scholarship benefits for U.S. veterans
(U.S./Nation)

... can make to this nation do not end when they take off that uniform. We owe a debt to all who serve, and when we repay that debt to those bravest Americans among us, then we are investing in our future." ...

18. Subway Series: The Mets are powerless to contend
(Sports/Professional)

...  Pirates 2 4 067 Cardinals 2 4 0.50 Braves 1 3 0.33 Some other Saturday night Subway Series thoughts: ...

19. New Jersey baseball fans love their Yankees and Phillies
(Sports/Professional)

... the Phillies have the loyalty of fans in South Jersey. Statewide, 2 percent of fans support the Atlanta Braves, 1 percent follow the Los Angeles Dodgers and 1 percent follow the Pittsburgh Pirates. Pollsters ...

20. Mets-Phillies doesn't rival 'back-in-the-day' rivalries
(Sports/Professional)

... Hart. The Mets have had their battles with the baseball Cardinals in the 1980s, and the Braves in the 1990s and early 2000s, and when Lopes was on the Astros in 1986, they went to-to-toe with the Mets. ...