Angel Hernandez to retire immediately
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Angel Hernandez to retire immediately
David Falkner is the author of several highly acclaimed books on sports including Sadaharu Oh: A Zen Way of Baseball, The Last Yankee, and Great Time Coming: The Life of Jackie Robinson from Baseball to Birmingham.
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On their own, these avoidable incidents would be forgotten like the thousands of other ejections or calls that have come and gone. But together, they paint a portrait of an umpire who’s played a major role in establishing his own villainous reputation.
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“I think he’s stuck in, like, a time warp, you know,” Mets broadcaster and former pitcher Ron Darl... See more
Does lightning-rod umpire Angel Hernandez deserve his villainous reputation?
“But ...” Foster remembers telling his dad, “what if I am the Michael Jordan of officiating?”
Today, Foster insists he said that in jest. But it is significant to note that more than 30 years later, he remembered that scene, and that line, enough to retell it. And it’s significant to note that more than 30 years later, Foster has ascended to Jordane... See more
Today, Foster insists he said that in jest. But it is significant to note that more than 30 years later, he remembered that scene, and that line, enough to retell it. And it’s significant to note that more than 30 years later, Foster has ascended to Jordane... See more
What do you think of Scott Foster after reading this?
Walter Duranty is now largely considered a media outlier or an anomaly, a reporter whose character flaws slipped through the editorial cracks of his institution. But the reality is that Duranty fits a prominent pattern at the Times of a star reporter whose celebrity enables him or her to commit journalistic malfeasance in plain sight of his editors
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