Three Strikes: Dubious historic plot lines 

July, 17, 2008
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Elsewhere on this site, my buddy Jerry Crasnick does a great job of summing up the nine second-half plot lines all baseball fans need to watch. But here at Three Strikes, we have a different mission.

It's also time to sum up some of the second-half plot lines that only we useless-informational-type lunatics need to watch. There's some very bizarre history out there, just waiting to be made between now and Halloween. So let's take a look:

STRIKE ONE -- THE 30-30-30 CLUB: It has now been 17 years since the multi-talented Howard Johnson founded a club that doesn't exactly need to rent out Shea Stadium to hold its club meetings.

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Jayson Stark
Jayson Stark

Jayson Stark has been a senior baseball writer for ESPN.com since 2000. His regular contributions include the newsy Rumblings and Grumblings column, his eclectic "Three Strikes" blog and his tilted look inside baseball's numbers and quirks, the Useless Information Department.

Stark also makes regular television appearances on "SportsCenter," "Outside the Lines" and "Baseball Tonight." He is a regular ESPN Radio guest of Mike & Mike, the Doug Gottlieb Show, the John Kinkade Show, ESPN Radio tonight and numerous other shows on the network.

Before arriving at ESPN, Stark worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer for 21 years. He was twice named Pennsylvania's sportswriter of the year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. In 2010, he was honored by the Foster Conference for Distinguished Writers for his books and other work. He is the author of two books, "The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History" (Triumph Books, 2006) and "Worth The Wait: Tales of the 2008 Phillies" (Triumph Books, 2009).

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