Chuck Tanner's death got me thinking. I was reading the former Pittsburgh Pirate's obituary and it didn't mention what year he was inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame. That's for good reason, Tanner isn't in the Hall of Fame, and it's a shame Tanner and many of his colleagues have been overlooked. Almost one-thousand men have suited up as a Major League Baseball manager in over 100 years of professional baseball, only seventeen have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame .

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In a story July 11 about the death of Yankees' public address announcer Bob Sheppard, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Kansas City was the opponent in his final game. The opponent was the Seattle Mariners.

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