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You Can't Help But Love It

Celebrating a photo that can't help but make you love baseball.

The best I can describe it, today is a day in which you express your feelings for the things that you love. As such, here is hands-down the best baseball photograph ever taken (well, my favorite at least). It's the kind of photo that can't help but re-spark that love of the game that everyone here at Baseball Prospectus has.

The photo was originally published in LIFE magazine and gives us a unique and amazing view of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series from high above Forbes Field. Enjoy, and feel free to share your favorite baseball-themed whatever, be it movie (Bad News Bears), book (Sandlot Peanuts), or anything else.

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Effectively Wild Episode 140: 2013 Series Preview: Seattle Mariners

Ben and Sam preview the Mariners' season, and Pete talks to Seattle Times Mariners writer Geoff Baker (at 18:53).

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Effectively Wild Episode 139: 2013 Season Preview Series: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

Ben and Sam preview the Angels' season, and Pete talks to Orange County Register Angels beat writer Jeff Fletcher (at 24:40).

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The Night Pete Rose Broke the Record

A look at the broadcast and celebration from the biggest day of Pete Rose's career.

There is a secret haven of MLB gems hidden in iTunes right now. Under the heading "Baseball's Best," you can find over 150 games ranging from the 1952 World Series to Mark Buehrle's perfect game in 2009. The games feature no-hitters, record-breakers, classic postseason battles and more. Best of all, these games are available in their full, original broadcast (including everything but the commercials) for only $1.99. Today we look at one of these gems: the San Diego at Cincinnati match on September 11, 1985, when Pete Rose finally surpassed Ty Cobb for the title of All-Time Hit King.

It's Wednesday night at Riverfront Stadium. The night before, over 51,000 Reds fans had watched 44-year-old player/manager Pete Rose face off against Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt in an attempt to break his tie with Ty Cobb atop the all-time hits leaderboard with his 4,192nd career base hit. Rose was hitless in four at-bats, popping out each time he came to the plate. Tonight, it's 47,000 people cheering their lungs out at the ballpark (bringing the season-long attendance to an "outstanding" 1.6 million). Everyone in Cincinnati is ready to explode in celebration when the moment 23 years in the making finally happens. Luckily for Rose, he has a sympathetic manager penciling in his .267 average and .329 slugging percentage into the number two spot in the lineup (to be fair, Rose's OBP in early September was still a very solid .389).

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Effectively Wild Episode 138: 2013 Season Preview Series: Texas Rangers

Ben and Sam preview the Rangers' season with Jason Cole, and Pete talks to ESPN Dallas staff writer and blogger Richard Durrett (at 20:48).

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Episode 32: We Got to Second Base!

The latest episode of the Towers of Power Fantasy Hour or 2 is live!

Jason and Paul review the news of the week in baseball and then take a deep dive into the second base position. Find out who they've nicknamed "Ranch", who has the worst face at the position, and who they think could go double-double in late rounds. 

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Effectively Wild Episode 137: 2013 Season Preview Series: Oakland Athletics

Ben and Sam preview the Athletics' season with Doug Thorburn, and Pete talks to Bay Area News Group A's beat writer John Hickey (at 19:07).

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Latest NFBC Mock Draft Data

The fantasy team will be publishing this data on a weekly basis for your tracking pleasure. The fantasy team will also revisit the ADP data in a column every other Monday to look for trends.

This data is courtesy of our friends at STATS LLC who run the National Fantasy Baseball Championships. They tell us that since Ryan Braun was named in the Biogenesis report, he's going no higher than 4th in any of the mock drafts that have been run after going first overall in four of the previous six drafts. The data below is from the 37 most recent mock drafts that the NFBC members have run in February. If the embedded google worksheet does not work for you, click here for a direct link to the worksheet.

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