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Featured: Barry Bonds, Baseball's Most Confusing Ghost

Barry Bonds is statistically one of the greatest players of all time. In all of baseball history, not a single player has more home runs, walks or intentional walks to their name. His run of stats between 2001 and 2004 was so impressive that he won MVP all four years, including 3 more, making him the only player with 7 total- the next most by any player is 3. With stats such as these, you may wonder why Bonds is not in the Baseball Hall of Fame...

Featured: Description of an Alien (also known as Rickey Henderson)

Baseball has had many characters, but none as intriguing as the one known as Rickey Henderson. I get a certain feeling of excitement when I talk to relatively new baseball fans, ones who don't know the slugger; there are so many interesting stories to tell, you just can't start with the basics. Explaining anything beyond that, however, makes him sound like a made up person. For one, Rickey talks in third person. There is no reason as to him doing this other than the fact that he thought it was funny...

Featured: Has Clayton Kershaw Earned his Dodger G.O.A.T Status?

The Los Angeles Dodgers are a team with a long history. Many legends have put on the Dodger blue, playing in both Brooklyn and Los Angeles, and left their names in the record books (now modernized as Baseball Reference). Clayton Kershaw, the resident veteran and "living legend" in the current Dodger rotation, continues to break franchise records year after year. With the club's 139 year history, has Clayton Kershaw done enough to push himself above the legends that came before him? What about all time?...