Today's Hottest Information On Baseball for Sunday, October 2, 2011

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(11:08:23 PM) Bats: The Joy of Needless Baseball Details – Besides a mountain of statistics, Baseball-Reference.com artfully captures a player's history with cool circular icons that represent uniform icons. (This story continues here)

(10:57:24 PM) Baseball should come clean for Roger Maris – Saturday marked the 50th anniversary of his record-setting 61st home run, a feat that wasn't appreciated in its time, and has been largely forgotten through the steroid era. In a central Florida high school locker room, two sons are preaching. (This story continues here)

(10:27:59 PM) Wonderful (and horrible) baseball night – Baseball, like life, revolves around anticlimax. That, in many ways, is the beauty of it. I realize that’s a hard thing to explain to someone who doesn’t love baseball. No, more than hard, it’s an impossible thing to explain, because many people want sports to be more than life. (This story continues here)

(10:11:09 PM) Baseball playoffs 2011 begin with AL divisional games Friday – Baseball playoffs: The Rays and Rangers get the 2011 MLB postseason under way Friday afternoon in Texas, followed by the Yankees and Tigers. The National League playoffs start on Saturday. (This story continues here)

(11:22:28 PM) Baseball-Small market Brewers chase big dreams – For years, the only September race that held any interest for Milwaukee Brewers fans was a sprint between the team's famous sausage mascots before the bottom of the sixth inning of every home game. (This story continues here)

(11:22:42 PM) Baseball-Cano arrives as the Yankees' best hitter – Move over Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter and Mark Teixeira, there is a new best bat in the New York Yankees lineup in Robinson Cano, who left no doubt he had come of age in New York's opening game of the 2011 postseason. (This story continues here)

(11:07:59 PM) Baseball’s final day full of drama – What that was, quite simply, was the best day of regular season baseball the game has ever seen. And there really isn’t even a close second. (Okay, well, when I said the same thing to my colleague, Tom Boswell, at 1:45 a.m. Thursday in the parking lot at Camden Yards, he immediately shot back: “Bobby Thomson.”) Read full article >> (This story continues here)

(10:24:02 PM) Baseball has us going batty in South Florida – The Marlins and baseball in general have never had a more eventful, bizarre, crazy, thrilling, agonizing end to a regular season than this past Wednesday. (This story continues here)

(10:32:46 PM) Uganda baseball documentary pitches for help – Uganda isn't known for being a big player on the baseball field, but one man is hoping for a home run with his documentary about the sport. (This story continues here)

(10:02:32 PM) Zen And 'The Art of Fielding': Baseball As Life – Chad Harbach's acclaimed debut novel, The Art Of Fielding , is full of wins and losses. But when a star player chokes, the book raises big questions about the things we chase in life — and what happens when we fall short. (This story continues here)