# BallNine: Know What You Don't Know\.

> Dedicated to baseball's past, present, and peculiar\. Quite possibly the last great place on the internet\.

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## Pages
- [Boxed Home](https://ballnine.com/)
- [Ballpark Nation](https://ballnine.com/ballparknation/)
- [OTOONS](https://ballnine.com/otoons/)
- [Boxed Home NOT USED](https://ballnine.com/boxed-home/)
- [The Story](https://ballnine.com/the-story/)

## Posts
- [Just Sam](https://ballnine.com/2026/10/06/just-sam-2/): Sam McDowell was one of the brightest stars of the 1960s, a decade marked by some of the best pitchers baseball has ever seen\. His potential led to comparisons with Sandy Koufax while his fastball and high walk totals made for an early version of Nolan Ryan\. 
- [Pinstripe Rubble](https://ballnine.com/2026/10/08/pinstripe-rubble/): Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman are way too comfortable in their jobs\. Who can blame them? They are not held accountable, certainly not by owner Hal Steinbrenner\. Boone and Cashman are way too comfortable even when opposing teams openly mock them at Yankee Stadium as Rays slugging third baseman Junior Caminero did: “Daaa Yankees lose\!’’
- [Fred Claire](https://ballnine.com/2026/10/06/fred-claire-rip/): The phrase “Dodger Blue” means many things to many people\. But have you ever wondered where “Dodger Blue” originated? The man behind the simple genius and incredible legacy of the phrase “Dodger Blue” — as well as the architect of the 1988 World Champion Dodgers – Fred Claire joins us for a special two\-part Spitballin’\.

- [Charade Grounds](https://ballnine.com/2026/10/01/charade-grounds/): Credit the Yankees and the Padres for playing real baseball, sending real scouts to scout opponents, playing together as a unit, and quickly dispatching the Over\-Nerding Red Sox and Cubbies in dominant sweeps in the Charade Series\.
- [SATO](https://ballnine.com/2026/10/01/sato/): In the fifth and sixth \(current\) seasons of his Nippon Professional Baseball career, Teruaki Sato has played in 276 games \(through September 30\) for the Hanshin Tigers\. The Hanshin Tigers third baseman has mashed 78 home runs in that span, more than any other professional player in Japan\.

## Categories
- [Baseball or Bust\!](https://ballnine.com/category/baseball-or-bust/)
- [The Story](https://ballnine.com/category/the-story/)
- [Spitballin'](https://ballnine.com/category/spitballin/)
- [Can O' Corn](https://ballnine.com/category/can-o-corn/)
- [Myster Eephus](https://ballnine.com/category/master-eephus/)

## Tags
- [New York Yankees](https://ballnine.com/tag/new-york-yankees/)
- [New York Mets](https://ballnine.com/tag/new-york-mets/)
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- [Los Angeles Dodgers](https://ballnine.com/tag/los-angeles-dodgers/)
- [Philadelphia Phillies](https://ballnine.com/tag/philadelphia-phillies/)

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