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In January, 1993, Hall of Famer Willie Stargell got married for the 3rd time.  His bride was named Margaret Weller.  It was Weller who started The Willie Stargell Foundation, the goal being to raise funds for kidney disease, the disease that took Willie Stargell's life in 2001.  But before Margaret Weller, before Stargell's k

If you are a Pittsburgh Pirates fan (yes, there've got to still be some of you out there) or were a Willie Stargell fan, or find interest on the other side of the bed, the side taken up by the baseball wife, then you've got to come back Monday and listen to the Jimmy Scott's High & Tight Monday Morning Interview with Dee Stargell Part 2.  Catch up and

Think about this.  You play baseball for a living; you've been doing so for years.  When you're not on the diamond, what's going on?  For a lot of guys, there's The Pull.  The Pull is the collection of forces that determine the direction the guy's private life will go.  These forces range from family to friends, from business acquaintances to fans, from groupies to total strangers.  Tied up in one big bundle and dropped onto our guy, like a safe landing on him after the fall from

Last night, February 2nd, was the annual Thurman Munson Awards Dinner at the Grand Hyatt in New York City.  I received an invitation from Jerry Milani to hang with the media and watch all of the festivities from their point of view.  I snapped some pictures, which I am unveiling to you exclusively here and on my Facebook page.  Are we pals on Facebook?  I

We've all got one.  It's the private side of our lives, the side only a scarce few may ever be privy to.  Think about your high school days.  There was that really popular girl or guy.  Why?  Probably good looking, athletic.  If lucky, the guy/girl had an interesting personality.  But what happened when you actually got to know this person who "had it all"?  You found out he didn't.&nbs

"The Glamorous Life of the Ballplayer's Wife."  As far back as 1971, Dolores "Dee" Stargell had the title and outline for a book about her life in The Game.  She even discussed it in THIS ARTICLE, written by Charles Feeney in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called "The Other Half."  Now, 39 years later, the book remains an ide

So, your playing career has ended.  You tried the obligatory comeback and realized you weren't 22 years old anymore.  Instead, you're 39 (in many cases 29, or even 25).  If the life expectancy for someone living in the United States is 77.7 years, that means you've got, at minimum, around 40 years left (going with the 39-year old example).  If your playing career was twice its average life expectancy, say 10 years, your post-c

Craig Paquette played parts of 11 years in the big leagues and earned over $8 million.  His agent at the beginning of his career was Scott Boras.  But after the 1997 season, Paquette chose to leave the agent some consider to be the most influential man in baseball over the pas