Josh Hamilton

MIND OVER MATTER

jjohnston@tampatrib.com Published: October 30, 2008 Under normal circumstances, Rays manager Joe Maddon faces dozens of decisions in a game. When Game 5 of the World Series reconvened, nearly 48 hours after it was suspended in...

Column: Post-Steroid Era: Moving on from baseball's dark ages

by Ben Woody, CT regular columnist In case you weren't aware of it, the Tampa Bay Rays and Philadelphia Phillies have met in this year's World Series. One team that has been a helluva lot better than the media gives them credit...

Josh Hamilton's Fight with the Devil

Josh Hamilton began his successful baseball career in 1999 as the number one draft pick of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. With little success as a highly touted prospect, Josh was fighting the devil in nightmarish dreams.

The F Word

Rent It The Movie:Joe Pace (Josh Hamilton) is a fringe disc jockey on a low-rated NYC talk station on its way out; Joe's candid show has run up nearly a million dollars in FCC fines, so he's preparing to do his last show. It...

Madden: Hamilton is the one that got a-Ray

PHILADELPHIA - They did not have a deep enough lineup to overcome the 0-for-29, 15-strikeout performance of Nos.3 and 4 hitters Carlos Pena and Evan Longoria over the first four games of the World Series. The Rays' untimely...

Keown: Just curse it

I read a story Monday suggesting that Philadelphia in general and the Phillies in particular are cursed. This Philly thing, apparently, is the Curse of Billy Penn, enacted after the completion of the first building taller than...

Mailbag: What will rotation look like?

Beat reporter T.R. Sullivan answers Rangers fans' questions The Rangers need a healthy C.J. Wilson to return to the bullpen next season. The Rangers are hoping to interview Brewers pitching coach Mike Maddux, but it's more...

Tender heart born of warm, yet wavering, start to life

Alberta Council kneels with her two children, Claybon and Nancy. When Alberta Council was born at home in 1918 weighing less than 3 pounds, the doctor set her aside to die. "She always had an excuse, like maybe they...

Blowup Was Defining Moment For Garza, Rays

mfennelly@tampatrib.com Published: October 26, 2008 PHILADELPHIA - You can't begin to catalog all the big moments in this Rays season, but there was time to start while waiting out the rain for Game 3 of the World Series. And...

The Schmuck Stops Here: Loewen reverberations

I've got to say, I didn't expect the kind of vitriol that has been directed at Adam Loewen for choosing to sign a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays yesterday. The guy's arm nearly fell off pitching for the...