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Charges against a ring of nine people for thefts of millions of dollars worth of paintings, sports memorabilia, and other valuables have been announced by federal authorities. The thefts took place over more than two decades at 20 museums, institutions, and stores across several states. The stolen goods included an Andy Warhol silkscreen, a Jackson Pollock painting, and nine World Series rings belonging to the late Yankees catcher Yogi Berra.
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Scientists in the United Kingdom claim that they have achieved a remarkable scientific feat — creating synthetic human embryos by using stem cells without any eggs or sperm. Professor Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz, of the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology, announced the news on Wednesday at a conference in Boston, but the potential method is still a long way from being used clinically. It also raises serious ethical and legal questions.
<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=23476" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TCU To Host Class About Drag</a>
Texas Christian University’s course catalog shows the school will offer a course called “The Queer Art of Drag” this coming fall. The course will be taught by Dr. Nino Testa, who also goes by his drag name “Maria von Clapp.” A syllabus for the course indicates that students will use worksheets and vision boards to develop their own drag personas, culminating in a live lip-sync performance.
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After a five-month investigation, law enforcement in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have busted a massive drug syndicate accused of smuggling six tons of methamphetamine from Canada to Australia and New Zealand. The traffickers were intercepted smuggling the drugs through shipments of maple syrup and canola oil.
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UFC superstar Conor McGregor has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in the bathroom at Kaseya Center, home to the Miami Heat. According to a report from TMZ, the incident allegedly took place at Game 4 of the 2023 NBA Finals between the Heat and Denver Nuggets. McGregor’s representatives have denied the allegations. According to demand letters from attorney Ariel Mitchell, the victim was separated from her friend by Heat and NBA security, where she was forced into a bathroom inside the arena. McGregor then emerged from a stall and forcibly kissed the woman while security guards allegedly guarded the doors.
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After 41 years at the helm of “Wheel of Fortune,” Pat Sajak has announced that this will be his final season. As Sajak told NBC’s Al Roker, he always put the show first.
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Friday

Friday Afternoon Update: Arrests Made Over Theft Of Yogi Berra World Series Rings, Stem-Cell Babies, Global Meth Ring Busted

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LIV Golf

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Pat Sajak

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The internet responded in big ways — including a shout-out from the president — as Aaron Judge hit home run 62 Tuesday night, breaking the American League single-season record.
The New York Yankees star blasted a leadoff homer against the Texas Rangers in Arlington that broke Roger Maris&#8217; single-season record of 61 home runs.
&#8220;Congrats @TheJudge44 on home run 62. History made, more history to make,&#8221; President Joe Biden tweeted Tuesday night.
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Congrats <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJudge44?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJudge44</a> on home run 62. History made, more history to make.
&mdash; President Biden (@POTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1577462671582134272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Biden was not alone in congratulating the 30-year-old slugger. Yankee great Derek Jeter took to social media to share his encouragement, adding, &#8220;Postseason next!!!&#8221;
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Congrats <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJudge44?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJudge44</a> on 62! Postseason next!!!
&mdash; Derek Jeter (@derekjeter) <a href="https://twitter.com/derekjeter/status/1577452510599446528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams was also quick to respond. &#8220;Congratulations to @TheJudge44 — keep making history for New York City,&#8221; he tweeted.
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Number 62!
Congratulations to <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJudge44?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJudge44</a> — keep making history for New York City. <a href="https://t.co/wvGOlMNOLL">https://t.co/wvGOlMNOLL</a>
&mdash; Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1577467079372021762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Other words of praise came from various political leaders, athletes, and celebrities. NFL Super Bowl champ and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes included the full video of the historic home run.
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Congrats <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJudge44?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJudge44</a>!! <a href="https://t.co/sjXZcjn9Zr">https://t.co/sjXZcjn9Zr</a>
&mdash; Patrick Mahomes II (@PatrickMahomes) <a href="https://twitter.com/PatrickMahomes/status/1577452424448675843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Judge, a four-time All-Star, passed the long-time record that stood for more than 60 years. Maris and fellow Yankee Mickey Mantle battled during the 1961 season to become the previous home run king, with Maris hitting 61 and Mantle finishing with 54. Yankee legend Babe Ruth set the prior record with 60 home runs in 1927.
Roger Maris Jr. also posted a tweet claiming Judge was the &#8220;clean&#8221; home run king.
&#8220;For the MAJORITY of the fans, we can now celebrate a new CLEAN HOME RUN KING!!&#8221; he tweeted.
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Congratulations to Aaron Judge and his family on Aaron’s historic home run number 62! It has definitely been a baseball season to remember. You are all class and someone who should be revered. For the MAJORITY of the fans, we can now celebrate a new CLEAN HOME RUN KING!!
&mdash; Roger Maris Jr (@RogerMarisJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/RogerMarisJr/status/1577451107516809216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Maris Jr. was likely referring to the three home run sluggers with more home runs than Judge in the National League. San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds hit 73 home runs in 2001, the St. Louis Cardinals&#8217; Mark McGwire hit 70 in 1998 (also 65 in 1999), and the Chicago Cubs&#8217; Sammy Sosa had three seasons with 63, 64, and 66 homers.
Previous top home runs champs have been accused of using performance-enhancing drugs during their record-breaking years, with the top three National League home run kings not being inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame after the controversy.
The wait since Judge&#8217;s 61st home run extended since September 28 when he homered against the Toronto Blue Jays. Judge still has two more regular season games to potentially add to his total, offering baseball fans another opportunity to show their excitement.
In the meantime, one lucky fan will have to decide what he plans to do with the record-breaking baseball after he caught it on Tuesday night.
Dallas resident Cory Youmans snagged the home run into the glove he brought for the occasion. Youmans was later escorted by security and interviewed by WFAA-TV. So far, he hasn&#8217;t thought about what he will do with the unique collector&#8217;s item.
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The fan who caught Aaron Judge’s historic 62nd HR when asked what he plans to do with the ball: 
“I haven’t thought about it.”
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&mdash; FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1577470912059695104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Aaron Judge

Aaron Judge Hits Home Run 62, Breaks American League Single-Season Record

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On Wednesday, Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees tied the American League home run record set by Roger Maris in 1961, slugging his 61st home run 61 years after Maris etched his name into the record books.
Batting in the top of the seventh inning against the Toronto Blue Jays’ Tim Mayza, Judge rocketed a 3-2 pitch 394 feet into the left field stands at a speed of 117.4 mph, the hardest he has hit any home run this season, according to Statcast tracking data, <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34336771/tracking-new-york-yankees-star-aaron-judge-chase-62-home-runs">ESPN</a> noted.
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61 years since 61.
Aaron Judge has written his name alongside Roger Maris in baseball&#39;s record books. <a href="https://t.co/1V4Gums34C">pic.twitter.com/1V4Gums34C</a>
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After his historic home run, Judge <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/29/aaron-judge-praises-wife-samantha-bracksieck-after-61st-home-run/">praised his wife</a> Samantha, who was his high school sweetheart, saying, “My wife has been with me through it all and she’s calm as a cucumber, that’s for sure,”
He also thanked his mother, who was in attendance, declaring, “She’s been with me through it all. From the Little League days, getting me ready for school, taking me to my first couple of practices and games, being there for my first professional game, my debut and now getting a chance to be here for this – this is something special, and we’re not done yet.”
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New York <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Yankees?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Yankees</a> slugger Roger Maris hits HR #61 of the 1961 season vs. Boston <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RedSox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RedSox</a> pitcher Tracy Stallard at Yankee Stadium to break Babe Ruth&#39;s single-season home run record! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MLB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MLB</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Baseball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Baseball</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/History?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#History</a> <a href="https://t.co/P3x78k4haG">pic.twitter.com/P3x78k4haG</a>
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Meanwhile, Roger Maris Jr., the son of the late slugger, said that the home run records racked up by Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, who all surpassed Maris’ 61 home runs in a season, were illegitimate. When he was asked whether their records were illegitimate, he <a href="https://apnews.com/article/barry-bonds-mlb-sports-new-york-yankees-aaron-judge-6d9bc98cfa005cd3f3df3acf2a62aa55">answered</a>, “I do. I think most people do.”
Asserting that if adding Judge hits his 62nd home run he should be considered the all-time single season home run leader, Maris Jr. continued, “He should be revered for being the actual single-season home run champ. I mean, that’s really who he is if he hits 62, and I think that’s what needs to happen. I think baseball needs to look at the records and I think baseball should do something.”
McGwire admitted he had used steroids when playing. Bonds and Sosa have been suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs.
“I can’t think of anybody better that baseball can look up to than Aaron Judge,” Maris Jr. added.
Noting that the Yankees will return to the Bronx on Friday for their three-game series against the Baltimore Orioles, Maris Jr. stated, “You can tell he’s back and he’s ready to go now. I think it will happen in New York. That’s where you want it to happen, that’s where I want it to happen. I think the city of New York deserves it. The fans deserve it. I think it would be great for baseball if it happens in New York.”
“Get to New York and hit 62 and knock the top off Yankee Stadium. It’s going to be fun,” he told Judge.

Toronto Blue Jays play the New York Yankees

Aaron Judge Ties Maris’ Record. Maris Jr: If He Hits 62, He Should Be All-Time Record-Holder.

Aaron Judge Ties Maris' Record. Maris Jr: If He Hits 62, He Should Be All-Time Record-Holder.

Yankees right fielder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aaron-judge-ties-the-babe-with-60th-homer-on-verge-of-passing-roger-maris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aaron Judge</a> is having arguably the greatest offensive season in baseball history. 
As of this writing, he leads major league baseball in home runs, RBIs, runs, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS, OPS+, and WAR, and he leads the American League in batting average and walks. 
Judge is a lock to break Roger Maris’ 61-year-old AL home run record of 61 — a record set in 1961. More on the steroid-era home run derby later. Judge hit his 60th home run in his 147th game of the season while it took Babe Ruth 150 games to hit 60 in 1927. So no asterisks necessary where Judge is concerned. 
He’s poised to become only the second Triple Crown winner (league leader in batting average, homers and RBIs) since 1967 and only the sixth since World War II.
This season, Judge is towering over his fellow competitors like Ruth did a century ago. With apologies to two-way unicorn Shohei Ohtani, Judge stands alone as the game’s singularly dominant player.
The bow on this package of greatness? Judge goes about his business like a professional. Instead of look-at-me bat flips and poses of admiration as the ball leaves the park, as is all the rage among latter-day sluggers, Judge gently places his bat on the ground before commencing yet another home run trot. It&#8217;s the baseball equivalent of Barry Sanders tossing the ball to the ref after an impossible 20-juke touchdown run. Act like you’ve been there before, indeed.
In contrast to the steroid-marred power surge of the late 1990s and early 2000s, there’s never been a whisper of juicing associated with Judge, adding another layer of likability.
Judge is a happily married man of deep Christian faith whose <a href="https://www.aaronjudgeallrisefoundation.org/">Aaron Judge All Rise Foundation</a> is, according to the website, shaping children and youth into the leaders of tomorrow. 
So why isn’t Aaron Judge an American hero? Why isn’t this chiseled 6’7” adonis, a man of impeccable reputation and skill, adorning every magazine cover and leading evening newscasts in a nation starved for something positive?
I can think of two reasons.
One, the aforementioned steroid era simultaneously saved and ruined baseball. A sport teetering on the edge of national oblivion following a devastating strike and the cancellation of the 1994 World Series found temporary salvation in an unprecedented power explosion that saw 17 50-homer seasons between 1996 and 2002, including the memorable National League race between Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa in 1998 and Barry Bonds’ record-setting 73-run campaign in 2001. 
Sadly, the growth in homers was mirrored in the juice-induced growth of Barry Bonds. By 2007, thanks to the details revealed in the Mitchell Report of widespread steroid use in baseball, the power surge was retroactively rendered fraudulent. Robbed to an extent of sluggers on steroids, the MLB allegedly turned to juiced baseballs in the late 2010s to try to recapture the magic of the glory days, but all that did was accelerate the game’s transformation into a homer-walk-strikeout snooze fest.
In other words, home runs have lost their luster and conceptually remain tainted from the steroid era. Judge, through no fault of his own, is suffering the consequences.
Secondly, the game itself has lost its status as America’s Pastime, and much of that decline is self-inflicted. I’ve alluded to many of the factors already — the sullying effect of steroids; the over-reliance on home runs; labor strife that alienates the working-class fan base that has long been the foundation of the game’s prosperity. 
But even deeper problems exist. The MLB’s rush to bend the knee to the forces of political correctness — epitomized by Commissioner Rob Manfred’s absurd decision to rob Atlanta of the 2021 All-Star Game due to a common-sense election security law in Georgia — has furthered the game’s decline.
I happen to be in possession of a framed newspaper front page from October 1921. The top story on a page that’s crammed with noteworthy breaking news? The World Series results from the night before. Can you imagine? It’s almost shocking to consider, but baseball once captured the hearts and captivated the minds of Americans. Believe it or not, James Earl Jones’ cornball speech in “Field of Dreams” about baseball being America’s constant once rang true.
While MLB drifts toward the iceberg, Manfred and Co. are busy rearranging deck chairs.
And Aaron Judge, a worthy American hero, pays the price.

Detroit Tigers v New York Yankees

One Of Baseball’s Most Hallowed Records Is About To Fall. Do Fans Even Care?

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New York Yankees fans blistered Pittsuburg Pirates’ pitcher Eric Stout for avoiding the possibility of giving up a record-tying home run to Yankees’ slugger Aaron Judge after Stout threw four straight pitches out of the strike zone, walking Judge on four pitches.
It was clear that Judge’s at-bat against Stout would be his last of the game, as it came in the eighth inning with the Yankees leading 11-2. There would be no reason to try to pitch around Judge as the game was not even close to being on the line; Judge has 60 home runs, and his 61st would tie the American League record held by the Yankees’ Roger Maris.
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Eric Stout wanted zero part of history.
4 balls not even CLOSE to Aaron Judge <a href="https://t.co/gp3WgehOEp">pic.twitter.com/gp3WgehOEp</a>
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“Eric Stout is the biggest coward in baseball,” <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-11237535/Yankees-fans-call-Eric-Stout-biggest-coward-baseball-walked-Aaron-Judge.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote one fan</a> on social media. Another chimed in, “If you walk Aaron Judge on four pitches in garbage time the crowd should be allowed to throw batteries at you.”
Pitchers who have given up legendary home runs have been immortalized by baseball fans, who largely cherish records and statistics more than fans in any other sport. The history of baseball is replete with such pitchers; here are some examples.
In 1927, the Washington Senators’ Tom Zachary gave up Babe Ruth’s famed 60th homer of the season, a record not to be broken until Maris came along 34 years later. Ironically, two years later, Zachary, as a member of the Yankees, boasted an unbelievable 12-0 record, the major league record for most pitching wins without a loss in one season.
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In 1932, Ruth immortalized another pitcher, this time the Chicago Cubs’ Charlie Root, when he famously “called his shot” after having two strikes on him in the fifth inning of Game 3 of the 1932 World Series. With the Cubs heckling him from the bench, Ruth pointed his bat toward the center field bleachers. If he weren’t already considered immortal by baseball fans, this cemented his incredible legacy.
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In 1951, in “The shot heard round the world,” Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca was vicitimized by the New York Giants Bobby Thomson in the bottom of the ninth inning of the third game of their playoff series to determine which team would go to the World Series. The Giants had made an amazing run to catch the Dodgers, winning 37 of their last 44 games. What got lost in the aftermath of the game was that Thomson had already hit a home run against Branca in the first game of the series, which the Giants won 3-1. Branca started the first game; in the third he was brought in as a relief pitcher.
Just to illustrate how dramatic Thomson’s homer was, over forty years later a Marine who had been stationed in Korea in 1951 <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/sport-obituaries/7954858/Bobby-Thomson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent him a letter</a> that stated:
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I was in a bunker in the front line with my buddy listening to the radio. It was contrary to orders, but he was a Giants fanatic. He never made it home and I promised him if I ever got back I&#8217;d write and tell you about the happiest moment of his life. It&#8217;s taken me this long to put my feelings into words. On behalf of my buddy, thanks, Bobby.
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Although Bill Mazeroski’s seventh game 9th inning home run won the 1960 World series over the Yankees in one of the most dramatic Series ever played, Ralph Terry, who won the seventh game two years later against the San Francisco Giants to clinch the World Series, has not been made quite as famous as some of the other pitchers for that moment.
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But the next year, Tracy Stallard of the Boston Red Sox gave up Maris’ 61st home run to break Ruth’s record, a much-remembered baseball memory.
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In 1974, Al Downing, who had a highly successful career earlier with the Yankees, was pitching for the Dodgers when he gave up the legendary 715th home run of Hank Aaron’s to break Ruth’s career home run record.
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And in 1988, ace reliever Dennis Eckersley of the Oakland Athletics famously tried to throw a backdoor slider to the Dodgers injured star Kirk Gibson, and the late Vin Scully’s call has itself deservedly become legendary.
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Pittsburgh Pirates v New York Yankees

‘Biggest Coward In Baseball’: Yankees Fans Rip Pitcher Who Avoided Judge’s 61st Home Run

Yankees Fans Rip Pitcher Who Avoided Judge’s 61st Home Run

New York Yankees star Aaron Judge, rewriting the baseball record book, tied the legendary Babe Ruth’s American League home run record which he set in 1927 before Yankees star Roger Maris eclipsed it in 1961, slugging his 60th home run of the season.
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No. 60 ties The Sultan of Swat for 2nd all-time in American League history!<a href="https://twitter.com/TheJudge44?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJudge44</a> 👨‍⚖️ <a href="https://t.co/DNwFXsJFMC">pic.twitter.com/DNwFXsJFMC</a>
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Judge’s solo blast came in the ninth inning as his Yankees trailed the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-4; exhilarating Yankees fans, who became delirious minutes later when Giancarlo Stanton slammed a grand-slam walk off homer to win the game.
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“I don&#8217;t think about the numbers,” Judge <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34633515/new-york-yankees-aaron-judge-hits-60th-home-run-one-shy-roger-maris-al-single-season-record">said</a> after the game “When you talk about Ruth and Maris and Mantle and all these Yankees greats that did so many great things in this game, you never imagine as a kid being mentioned with them. It&#8217;s an incredible honor. It&#8217;s something I don&#8217;t take lightly at all.”
“I&#8217;m trying to enjoy it all, soak it all in, but I know I still have a job to do out on the field every single day and I just have to keep my head down, keep preparing and stay mentally focused,” he added.
Judge’s blast came in the 147th game of the 162 game season. Ruth hit his 60 homers on the team largely regarded as the greatest of all time in the 154 game season. Maris hit 59 by the time his season had reached 154 games. He hit his 60th in the 15th game and his 61st in the 162rd game.
The Yankees actually played 163 games that year, but one ended in a tie and had to be made up later.
Baseball commissioner Ford Frick, who had <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1991/09/07/fricks-asterisk-demeaned-maris/8c1ca5be-d589-481e-8ebe-a0ec8c99d4b0/">served as Ruth’s ghost writer</a> in the 1920s,  announced in mid-season 1961, when Maris had 35 homers, &#8220;If the player does not hit more than 60 until after the club has played 154 games, there would have to be some distinctive mark in the record books to show that Babe Ruth&#8217;s record was set under a 154-game schedule and the total of more than 60 was compiled while a 162-game schedule was in effect.”
Thus when Maris needed eight more games to break Ruth’s record, sportswriters doomed Maris’ record to be adorned with an asterisk in the baseball record book.
Yet Maris had a grand total of seven more late appearances than Ruth, making their seasons almost identical. And Maris’ 59th and 60th homers were hit when he had had less plate appearances than Ruth, as SABR <a href="https://sabr.org/journal/article/maris-and-ruth-was-the-season-games-differential-the-primary-issue/">reported</a>.
On the other hand, Maris’ record came in the first year of expansion, when two teams were added in each league.
Maris’ record was broken later in the National League by Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1998, who hit 70, (McGuire also hit 65 in 1999) and by the Chicago Cubs’ Sammy Sosa in 1998 and 1999 (66 and 63, respectively) before Barry Bond of the San Francisco Giants slugged 73 in 2001, the only season he surpassed 50.
But all three men have been accused of using performance-enhancing drugs, as opposed to Maris, who justifiably could still claim to be the record holder if viewed on the up and up. That would make the ascension of Judge, who is virtually certain to break Maris’ record if he stays healthy, effectively the all-time record holder.

Aaron Judge Hitting his 60th Home Run of the Season

Aaron Judge Ties The Babe With 60th Homer, On Verge Of Passing Roger Maris

Aaron Judge Ties The Babe With 60th Homer

A pristine Mickey Mantle baseball card from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/derek-jeter-enters-the-baseball-hall-of-fame" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yankee Hall of Famer</a>’s rookie season fetched a whopping $12.6 million at auction, shattering the prior record for any piece of sports memorabilia.
The 1952 Topps card, graded a 9.5 for condition, is the &#8220;finest known example&#8221; of the slugger’s first-season card. Mantle, who hit 536 home runs over his 18-year career, has long been a favorite of collectors. The anonymous buyer purchased the card Saturday at a memorabilia sale by Heritage Auctions.
&#8220;This card is arguably the finest-condition example of the most iconic post-war card in the world,&#8221; Chris Ivy, Heritage&#8217;s director of sports auctions, said in a statement. &#8220;That grade, plus the fact it has documented provenance from the most storied find in hobby history, puts this card in a category of its own.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_429974" style="width: 386px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-429974" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-429974 size-full" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-8.28.21-AM.png" alt="The 1952 baseball card is the most pristine known example of the iconic card." width="376" height="570" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-8.28.21-AM.png 376w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-8.28.21-AM-198x300.png 198w" sizes="(max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px" />The 1952 baseball card is the most pristine example of the iconic card. (Courtesy of Heritage Auctions)</div>
The previous record price paid for a baseball card was $7.25 million, set earlier this month by the sale of a T206 Honus Wagner card. The Wagner card, put out from 1909-1911 by the American Tobacco Company, is especially rare because the Pittsburgh Pirates great demanded it be pulled over his objection to smoking. Another Wagner T206 sold a year ago for $6.606 million.
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A 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card graded at 9 sold for $5.2 million earlier this year.
The provenance of the record-setting Mantle card is the stuff of legends. Well-known collector Alan Rosen <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34473632/1952-topps-mickey-mantle-card-sells-126-million-shattering-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> got a call in 1986 from a Boston-area forklift operator who told him a pal, Ted Lodge, had inherited it from his late father and wanted to sell it. Lodge&#8217;s father had worked as a truck driver for Topps and had saved several boxed sets of the entire 1952 series.
Rosen hired a police officer and drove to Quincy, Massachusetts, with $125,000 in cash to pay for 5,500 1952 Topps cards, including dozens of Mantles. In 1991, Rosen sold one of the Mantle cards for $50,000 to a buyer who remained anonymous for 31 years.
That buyer, Anthony Giordano, rejected several private, multimillion-dollar offers until his sons persuaded him to have the card graded put under the hammer.
In the same auction, Heritage sold an autographed Hillerich &amp; Bradsby bat used by Babe Ruth sometime around 1920 for $1.68 million.

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SEE IT: Mickey Mantle Baseball Card With Mysterious History Shatters Records At Auction

Mickey Mantle Baseball Card With Mysterious History Shatters Records At Auction

A fan attending <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youll-never-see-this-again-bizarre-spectacular-play-makes-baseball-history">New York’s</a> Subway Series made <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mlb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">baseball</a> history with a hot dog hack you have to see to believe.
The unidentified fan, apparently unaware he was being videotaped, discreetly and methodically used a straw to drill a hole into a hot dog, then used the hot dog as a straw to drink his beer. The video went viral and left half of the internet disgusted and the other half in awe, with a possibly powerful correlation to gender.
“This man is ahead of his time,” tweeted Blain Crain, of The Daily Wire sports podcast Crain &amp; Company.
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This man is ahead of his time <a href="https://t.co/7EHQKXqN0q">pic.twitter.com/7EHQKXqN0q</a>
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Video of the man, who wore a plaid Yankees hat and is believed to have been attending Monday&#8217;s contest in the Bronx between the New York Mets and Yankees, went viral with nearly seven million views as of Tuesday morning.
Others marveled at the man’s ingenuity in combining two baseball delicacies into one glorious taste explosion.
“Let me be the public defender here,” tweeted a user called Shu. “Man took 2 delicious food objects normally eaten together. He can now slurp a joint flavor. He can nibble his straw down and continue to use it as a straw. He can keep using his right hand to write 5 star reviews of The Joker.”
Talkin&#8217; Jake approved of the McGyver-esque maneuver.
&#8220;Two things that are delicious, yet you judge without trying it — why is that?&#8221; he tweeted.
But not everyone approved of the Frank N&#8217; Stein act.
“Oh thank god my husband isn’t on twitter to see this [because] he would do something like this at the next game or family cookout,” tweeted NCarolinaKellie.
And Jomboy Media, who initially tweeted the clip and drew nearly 60,000 likes, said the stunt deserved punishment.
“Life sentence. No parole,” read the message that accompanied the clip.
The fan likely went home happy: The Yankees won, 4-2.

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WATCH: Hot Dog Hack Turns Beer-Swilling Baseball Fan Into Online Legend

Hot Dog Hack Turns Beer-Swilling Baseball Fan Into Online Legend

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-yankees">New York Yankees</a> Hall of Famer Derek Jeter has revealed why his once close friendship with Alex Rodriguez fell apart.
The two shortstops had become friends in the 1990s as they both rose to stardom. Jeter played in 15 games in 1995, then played in virtually every Yankees game in 1996, batting .314 and named AL Rookie of the Year as the Yankees won their first World Series in 18 years. Rodriguez played 17 games for the Seattle Mariners in 1994, then 48 in 1995 before playing in 146 games with a league-leading batting average of .358 along with 36 home runs and 123 RBI in 1996.
Jeter, 48, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11004213/Derek-Jeter-opens-lost-trust-Alex-Rodriguez.html">stated</a> on the ESPN series “The Captain” that an April 2001 article about Rodriquez in Esquire catalyzed his anger toward Rodriguez. Rodriguez said in the article:
<blockquote>Jeter&#8217;s been blessed with great talent around him. He&#8217;s never had to lead. He can just go and play and have fun. He hits second — that&#8217;s totally different than third or fourth in a lineup. You go into New York, you wanna stop Bernie and O&#8217;Neill. You never say, “Don&#8217;t let Derek beat you.” He&#8217;s never your concern.&#8221;</blockquote>
Two months before that, as Jeter negotiated his contract with the Yankees, Rodriguez sniped that Jeter’s contract would not compare with Rodriguez&#8217;s $252 million contract with the Texas Rangers. He told Dan Patrick, “ &#8230; he just doesn&#8217;t do the power numbers and defensively he doesn&#8217;t do all those things.”
Asked at the time if those comments had bothered him, Jeter answered, “Not at all. I&#8217;ve known him for a long time. Obviously, it didn&#8217;t come out good, what he supposedly said, but he said his intentions weren&#8217;t bad, so that&#8217;s the way I look at it. We&#8217;re close. We obviously don&#8217;t spend a lot of time together because we&#8217;re in different cities, but he&#8217;s a good friend of mine.”
But Jeter, who was named the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/08/27/derek-jeters-best-yankees-moments-a-new-captain/">captain of the Yankees</a> in 2003, the year before Rodriguez joined the team, told ESPN, “The Dan Patrick interview, he was talking about a comparison between me and him on the field. In my mind, he got his contract, so you&#8217;re trying to diminish what I&#8217;m doing maybe to justify why you got paid?” He admitted his statistics, “never compared to Alex&#8217;s statistics. &#8230; I&#8217;m not blind. I understand. But we won.”
The Esquire comments rankled Jeter. He admitted, “Those comments bothered me because, like I said, I&#8217;m very, very loyal. As a friend, I&#8217;m loyal. I just looked at it as ‘I wouldn&#8217;t have done it.’ And then it was the media. The constant hammer to the nail. They just kept hammering it in. It just became noise, which frustrated me. Just constant noise.”
Rodriguez, who shifted from his natural position at shortstop to third base when he joined the Yankees, doubled down on his 2001 comments when asked about them by ESPN. “When that came out, I felt really bad about it,” he confessed. “I saw the way it was playing out. The way it was written, I absolutely said exactly what I said. It was a comment that I stand behind today. It was a complete tsunami. It was one of the greatest teams ever. To say that you don&#8217;t have to focus on just one player is totally fair.”
“By the way, the same could be said about my team with the Mariners,” Rodriguez added. “We had Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar Martinez, Jay Buhner. If someone said that about me, I&#8217;d be like, ‘No s***. Absolutely. You better not just worry about me.’”
“You can say whatever you want about me as a player, that&#8217;s fine, but then it goes back to the trust and the loyalty,” Jeter declared. “This is how the guy feels, he&#8217;s not a true friend, is how I felt. Because I wouldn&#8217;t do it to a friend.”
Rodriguez admitted that his comments “broke the trust” between the two men. “And I think from that moment on it was never quite the same ever again. I think it&#8217;s [me] really not understanding the way things work.”
The two men played together on the Yankees from 2004 through 2013, winning a World Series together in 2009. In that Series, Jeter batted .407 while Rodriguez batted .250.
Jeter retired after the 2014 season, which Rodriquez missed because he had been <a href="https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2738639-alex-rodriguez-says-ped-suspension-cost-him-his-reputation-more-than-40m">suspended from baseball</a> for his involvement in Major League Baseball&#8217;s Biogenesis scandal.
“I&#8217;m still gonna be cordial. But you crossed the line, and I won&#8217;t let you in again,” Jeter concluded.

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Derek Jeter Reveals Why His Friendship With A-Rod Fell Apart

Derek Jeter Reveals Why His Friendship With Alex Rodriguez Fell Apart

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Derek Jeter

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/baseball">Hall of Fame</a> pitcher and current Minnesota Twins announcer Jim Kaat coined a nickname for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-yankees">Yankees</a> pitcher that probably shouldn’t stick during a Thursday afternoon game.
As Nestor Cortes, the New York lefthander enjoying a breakout season, was mowing down the Angels in the first game of a doubleheader, the 83-year-old Kaat sought to pay him a compliment. Something got lost in the translation, however.
&#8220;&#8216;Nestor the Molester,&#8217; Nestor Cortes,&#8221; Kaat said as he noted the out-of-town score. &#8220;Angles and different speeds. He&#8217;s a pitcher.&#8221;
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&mdash; OutKick (@Outkick) <a href="https://twitter.com/Outkick/status/1532702736952840192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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It was clear that Kaat meant Cortes was making batters uncomfortable with a dazzling menu of pitches en route to authoring seven innings of five-hit, shutout ball in the Bronx. But suffice to say nobody wants to be referred to as a “molester.”
&#8220;Obviously, we take these matters seriously and, like in all cases, will handle this internally and privately,&#8221; said Twins Vice President of Communications and Content Dustin Morse, who spoke with Kaat after the broadcast. &#8220;Jim meant no ill will.&#8221;
Kaat said he intended to apologize privately to Cortes, who heard about the remark and took it with good nature.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sure, you know, he didn&#8217;t really mean it, and people make mistakes, but it didn&#8217;t offend me at all,&#8221; Cortes told the Associated Press.&#8221;So, you know, I don&#8217;t really have anything more than just that, honestly.&#8221;
Yankee fans have given Cortes a more acceptable nickname this season: “Nasty Nestor.” The win on Thursday rasied his record to 5-1 with a sterling 1.50 ERA.
Kaat, who previously was an announcer for the Yankees, <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/32363521/jim-kaat-apologizes-40-acre-remark-alds-broadcast">apologized in October</a> after recommending that teams &#8220;get a 40-acre field full of&#8221; players who look like <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/team/_/name/chw/chicago-white-sox">White Sox</a> infielder <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/33984/yoan-moncada">Yoan Moncada</a> while doing a game between the White Sox and Houston Astros for the MLB Network.
Some viewers took it as a reference to the U.S. government’s post-Civil War pledge to 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves. He apologized later in that game between the <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/team/_/name/hou/houston-astros">Houston Astros</a> and White Sox.
&#8220;Earlier in the game when <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/33984/yoan-moncada">Yoan Moncada</a> was at the plate, in an attempt to compliment the great player that he is, I used a poor choice of words that resulted in an insensitive and hurtful remark,&#8221; Kaat said. &#8220;And I&#8217;m sorry for that.&#8221;
During his own career, Kaat pitched for five teams over 25 years and won 283 games before retiring in 1983. The lefthander was snubbed by sportswriters in Hall of Fame balloting, but finally made it to Cooperstown last year, when the Golden Days Era Committee voted him in.

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Baseball Announcer Coins Extremely Unfortunate Nickname For Star Pitcher

Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY) blasted the New York Yankees for using the term &#8220;Latinx&#8221; in a tweet while claiming that nobody in his district ever uses the term — yet the congressman has used the term on several occasions.
On Thursday night, the New York Yankees sent out a series of tweets regarding gun violence. One of those tweets said, &#8220;Each year, more than 4,100 Latinx people die from gun violence in the U.S. and 13,300 are shot and wounded.&#8221;
Torres responded, &#8220;I represent the South Bronx, home to the Yankees. Never heard anyone locally use the term ‘Latinx.’ Does a majority of Hispanics actually use the term ‘Latinx’? If the answer is ‘no’, how did ‘Latinx’ come to be the term to use in government and Corporate America?&#8221;
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I represent the South Bronx, home to the Yankees. Never heard anyone locally use the term ‘Latinx.’ 
Does a majority of Hispanics actually use the term ‘Latinx’?
If the answer is ‘no’, how did ‘Latinx’ come to be the term to use in government and Corporate America? <a href="https://t.co/4EYR1ksywx">https://t.co/4EYR1ksywx</a>
&mdash; Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) <a href="https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1530158582611812361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;If you are speaking to a particular person who prefers ‘Latinx,’ then, by all means, use the term,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But if you are referring to the Hispanic community in general, why not use the term that the majority itself predominantly uses?&#8221;
&#8220;Every community should have the right to label itself, rather than have a label imposed on them by others,&#8221; the congressman continued.
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Torres is correct that hardly any Hispanic person prefers the team &#8220;Latinx.&#8221; In December 2021, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-poll-shows-only-2-of-hispanics-use-term-latinx-many-find-it-offensive">observed</a> that for some reason, the Left believes that all Americans should live in a gender-neutral world devoid of femininity and masculinity. At the same time, Democrats have wondered why Hispanic Americans have been fleeing the party in droves and voting Republican lately. Politico <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-poll-shows-only-2-of-hispanics-use-term-latinx-many-find-it-offensive">reported</a> in December that according to a new poll, just 2% of Hispanic American voters used the term “Latinx” — possibly contributing to the exodus.
Pollster Fernand Amandi — whose firm ran the poll — told Politico at the time, “The numbers suggest that using Latinx is a violation of the political Hippocratic Oath, which is to first do no electoral harm.”
“Why are we using a word that is preferred by only 2%, but offends as many as 40 percent of those voters we want to win?” he added.
Maybe Torres read that poll because, in 2020, Torres used to refer to himself and his community with the moniker he now decries. &#8220;Never for a moment did I imagine becoming the first openly #LGBTQ Afro-Latinx member of Congress and joining the ranks of the @outmagazine,&#8221; Torres tweeted in November 2020.
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Never for a moment did I imagine becoming the first openly <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LGBTQ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LGBTQ</a> Afro-Latinx member of Congress and joining the ranks of the <a href="https://twitter.com/outmagazine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@outmagazine</a> Out100. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RainbowWave?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RainbowWave</a><a href="https://t.co/6xfKtgNLrM">https://t.co/6xfKtgNLrM</a> <a href="https://t.co/6hnll0ArtQ">pic.twitter.com/6hnll0ArtQ</a>
&mdash; Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) <a href="https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1329969456248971264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Prior to getting elected, Torres tweeted, &#8220;A new generation of Latinx representation is rising,&#8221; while referencing an NBC tweet that used the term &#8220;Latino&#8221; and &#8220;Latina.&#8221;
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A new generation of Latinx representation is rising. <a href="https://t.co/b8wENyziPJ">https://t.co/b8wENyziPJ</a>
&mdash; Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) <a href="https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1320373866817093632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In December 2019, Torres also tweeted, &#8220;Honored to earn the endorsement @BOLDDems which has been at the forefront of strengthening Latinx representation in Congress. The backing of @BOLDDems is a game-changer in the #SouthBronx, which is home to one of the highest Latinx populations in the US.&#8221;
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Honored to earn the endorsement <a href="https://twitter.com/BOLDDems?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BOLDDems</a> which has been at the forefront of strengthening Latinx representation in Congress. The backing of <a href="https://twitter.com/BOLDDems?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BOLDDems</a> is a game-changer in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SouthBronx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SouthBronx</a>, which is home to one of the highest Latinx populations in the US.<a href="https://t.co/dBm2m1fsSX">https://t.co/dBm2m1fsSX</a>
&mdash; Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) <a href="https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1201565682481160194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Perhaps Torres changed his tune on the term &#8220;Latinx&#8221; in order to help <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/05/politics/democrats-hispanics-republicans-texas/index.html">stop the Hispanic exodus </a>from the Democratic Party.
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Bronx Congressman Blasts New York Yankees For Saying ‘Latinx’ Despite Previously Using Term Himself

Ritchie Torres Blasts New York Yankees For Saying 'Latinx' Despite Previously Using Term Himself

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The New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Rays decided to offer their unsolicited opinions about guns and gun control on their Twitter feeds Thursday, precipitating anger from some fans who wants sports to stay out of politics.
The Yankees played against the Rays in St. Petersburg, Florida, Thursday night in the first of a four-game series.
“The Rays, whose team colors are blue and white, changed the background banner of their Twitter account to orange, which is frequently used for gun violence awareness and prevention efforts, with a banner that read, ‘End Gun Violence,’” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/sports/yankees-rays-gun-violence-uvalde.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur">The New York Times</a> reported.
“Rays communications staff members led the effort to research and vet the facts, an initiative assisted by Jason Zillo, the Yankees’ vice president of communications,” The Times added.
“In lieu of game coverage and in collaboration with @Yankees, we will use our channels to offer facts about the impacts of gun violence,” the Rays started their Twitter thread, which was identical to the Yankees’.  “The devastating events that took place in Uvalde, Buffalo and countless other communities across our nation are tragedies that are intolerable.”
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In lieu of game coverage and in collaboration with <a href="https://twitter.com/Yankees?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Yankees</a>, we will use our channels to offer facts about the impacts of gun violence.
The devastating events that took place in Uvalde, Buffalo and countless other communities across our nation are tragedies that are intolerable.
— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) <a href="https://twitter.com/RaysBaseball/status/1529955769885548556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Every day, more than 110 Americans are killed with guns, and more than 200 are shot and injured,” the Rays continued. “Firearms were the leading cause of death for American children and teens in 2020. &#8230; 58 percent of American adults or someone they care for have experienced gun violence.”
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Every day, more than 110 Americans are killed with guns, and more than 200 are shot and injured.
&mdash; New York Yankees (@Yankees) <a href="https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1529958449265754112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Firearms were the leading cause of death for American children and teens in 2020.
&mdash; Tampa Bay Devil Rays (@RaysBaseball) <a href="https://twitter.com/RaysBaseball/status/1529961376038412304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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58 percent of American adults or someone they care for have experienced gun violence.
&mdash; Tampa Bay Devil Rays (@RaysBaseball) <a href="https://twitter.com/RaysBaseball/status/1529964450090041344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Then they turned to race and gender: “Every three hours, a young Black man dies by gun homicide. &#8230; Each year, more than 4,100 Latinx people die from gun violence in the U.S. and 13,300 are shot and wounded. &#8230; About 4.5 million women in the US today report having been threatened with a gun by an intimate partner.”
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Every three hours, a young Black man dies by gun homicide.
&mdash; New York Yankees (@Yankees) <a href="https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1529970379787231242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Citation: <a href="https://t.co/qUEcXTplQK">https://t.co/qUEcXTplQK</a>
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About 4.5 million women in the US today report having been threatened with a gun by an intimate partner.
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More: “Access to a gun triples the risk of death by suicide. &#8230; An average of 4,500 veterans die by firearm suicide every year &#8211; about 12 veterans each day.
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Access to a gun triples the risk of death by suicide.
&mdash; Tampa Bay Devil Rays (@RaysBaseball) <a href="https://twitter.com/RaysBaseball/status/1529987796148146284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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An average of 4,500 veterans die by firearm suicide every year &#8211; about 12 veterans each day.
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They quoted the gun control advocates everytownresearch: “When an assault weapon is used in a mass shooting, it results in six times as many people shot than when other guns are used.”
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When an assault weapon is used in a mass shooting, it results in six times as many people shot than when other guns are used.
— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) <a href="https://twitter.com/RaysBaseball/status/1529998136265023488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Although the teams were praised by many people on social media, others criticized them for bringing politics into sports:
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You&#39;d better be covering the daily carnage in cities like Chicago and your own hometown, <a href="https://twitter.com/Yankees?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Yankees</a>, or you&#39;re missing the story.
Yes, these are concerns for all of our society, but this is in no way your area of expertise, nor what fans pay you to do. <a href="https://t.co/CAXDXOTR6R">https://t.co/CAXDXOTR6R</a>
&mdash; Nan Hayworth, M.D. (@NanHayworth) <a href="https://twitter.com/NanHayworth/status/1529971053258235933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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But you are still playing the game? <a href="https://t.co/3lMWxHeLfl">https://t.co/3lMWxHeLfl</a>
&mdash; Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1530001818901676041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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People used sports as an escape from politics but now we’ve been treated to this. Different situation by far, but baseball became much less worth watching in 2020 with the taking a knee.
&mdash; Rebecca Downs (@RebeccaRoseGold) <a href="https://twitter.com/RebeccaRoseGold/status/1530005095357743111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Virtue signaling PR. Free brand advertising. Look how much we care. That&#8217;s all it is, sports fans.
— Steve Tobak (@SteveTobak) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveTobak/status/1529980248959307777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Other fans expressed their disenchantment on Twitter with comments such as “Bro can we have our goddamn sports as an escape? We&#8217;re bombarded with this 24/7. Sports needs to be relief from that,” and “Why don’t the @Yankees post about what’s happening in their home state on the subways.”

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