Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
July 21, 2006
Mo Better Buildings
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Mo Vaughn is giving back to the community in a substantial way:

The hulking first baseman, who retired from baseball because of a wrecked knee, is fixing up run-down low-income housing as his second career.

A hero for the Red Sox in Boston, the southpaw slugger decided to start his post baseball life here, to make amends for his Big Apple struggles.

"I owed it to people to rectify things," Vaughn told the Daily News.

Just two years after launching his company Omni New York with mergers and acquisitions lawyer Eugene Schneur, Vaughn's on his sixth renovation project - a pair of apartment buildings at 1971 and 1975 Grand Ave. in Morris Heights in the Bronx.

The story doesn't really go into how Mo's business model works. They're not throwing out tenants to collect higher rents, nor do they appear to be flipping the buildings (at least it's not clear from the article). I take it they're building up equity; the repaired building is likely worth more than the dilapidated structure they purchased + repairs. I also suspect they're getting low cost loans. But more power to them. I wish some had come up with an idea like this in my home town of Bridgeport.

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February 18, 2004
Spaceman Film
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Bambino's Curse has information about an independent film project on Bill Lee. Lee is certainly one of the more colorful characters to play the game, so the film should be quite interesting. The link has information on how you can be a part of the process.

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January 24, 2004
Thoughts on Orosco
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The Mad Hibernian at the Baseball Crank has thoughts on the retirement of Jesse Orosco.

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January 04, 2004
Death at 99
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Paul Hopkins passed away on Friday. At age 99, he was the oldest living ballplayer. Babe Ruth was the first batter he ever faced, and gave up HR 59 of the 1927 season, which tied Ruth's previous HR record.

It seems Mr. Hopkins led a healthy life:


"It was only in the last month or so that he started to go downhill," said Peter Hopkins, his son.

I don't know who the oldest living ballplayer is now, but looking at the STATS, Inc. database, a good candidate is Ray Cunningham, born 1/17/1905. This site also seems to think it's Ray. The problem is Mike Kelly, born in 1902, whose status is unknown.

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