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Tom Verducci Really, Really Wants To Play Baseball

You might remember, from a couple of years ago, when Sports Illustrated baseball guru Tom Verducci played for five days with the Toronto Blue Jays during spring training. It was a clever idea, and well-written, as was his piece this year about serving as an umpire. But, like an athlete who has been forced to retire from the game but just can't let it go, Verducci isn't done: He played for the Blue Jays in the Hall of Fame game on Monday. And you can't really argue that it's another big journalistic experiment; all he got out of it was a Web piece. More »

12:00 PM on Thu May 24 2007
By Leitch
2,040 views, 66 comments

Latest by Albrot: I don't buy it. It's a Hall of Fame game, for crying out loud. You're telling me that if a professional baseball team invited you to come and put on a uniform and play ball in an exhibition more »