Roger Mooney

Thanks for the memories

This job is all about memories, so maybe Barbra Streisand should sing in the background while you read this, because beginning today, all I have of the Bradenton Herald are memories.

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ROGER MOONEY

Instant replay not cure-all for bad calls

You want more use of replay in baseball? You want some of those awful calls during the recent postseason overturned? I’m with you on that.
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Creamsicles are the color of hope for Bucs

Has any jersey made a bigger comeback than the orange and white creamsicles worn by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of yore?
ROGER MOONEY

Hey, we’re a minor league town now

Baseball and Bradenton go together like peanuts and cracker jack and pitchers and catchers, which is all Bradenton could expect for lo these many years.
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Making a mountain out of an overpass

There are inclines along the 3.1-mile race course at Little Everglades Ranch in Dade City, the site of the cross country state championship races. Maybe not a Heartbreak Hill incline, but steep enough to ruin a good day for someone who lives and trains in, say, flat Manatee County.
ROGER MOONEY

What goes into a team’s nickname?

Check out Bradenton.com and you will see an incredible sight: The Pittsburgh Pirates in first place.
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Series brings back warm memories for Bradenton man, 89

It is World Series time, and World Series time always brings Donald McGrath back to another time when the world was at war and he was a young soldier home on leave from the Army.
ROGER MOONEY

Former Nole keeps NFL dream alive in UFL

ST. PETERSBURG
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So who wins Series? Maybe history can tell us

We should have known the New York Yankees were going to the World Series this fall, long before Mariano Rivera closed out the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday night and long before Alex Rodriguez turned into Reggie Jackson this month. We should have known the Yankees were destined for anther long postseason...
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Dorsey to Lindsey: The LWR connection

LAKEWOOD RANCH
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Rising country singer David Nail will perform Nov. 21 at a benefit for the Payton Wright Foundation at Main Street in Lakewood Ranch.

On the inside of his CD, not far from where country singer David Nail dedicates the album to his grandparents, you’ll find these words: