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baseball, Piazza was one of the best. Twice Piazza fi nished a season with 40 homers.

Known more for his off ense, Piazza caught a pair of no-hitters while playing for the Dodgers. Perhaps the most impres-sive no-no he caught was thrown by Hideo Nomo at Coor’s Field in Colorado, at the time a huge hitter’s park.

In his entire 16 year ca-reer, Piazza never struck out more than 93 times in a single season. He is one of just 10 players in history to hit over 400 home runs (427) and hit over .300 (.308) for his career while not strik-ing out 100 times in a

season. The other nine are Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Lou Gehrig, Mel Ott, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Vladimir Guerrero, Chipper Jones and Albert Pujols. The fi rst six are in the Hall of Fame. Jones just retired following the 2012 season. Pujols is still active and Guerrero is not yet eligible for the Hall of Fame.

Piazza won the 1993 Rookie of the Year Award and was a 12 time All Star. His rookie season, started a string of six straight all star appearances and six straight Silver Slugger Awards. Overall, Piazza won 10 Silver Slugger Awards. He was a two-time runner up for the MVP award and fi nished in the top 10 seven times. Four times Piazza fi nished in the top 5.

4. Tim Raines The knock against

Raines is that he played at the same time as Rickey Henderson. But outside of that, Raines was just as dominant. His 808 stolen bases is the fourth highest career total. Only Hen-derson, Lou Brock and Ty Cobb have more and all three are in the Hall of Fame.

Of course, Raines was able to do one thing that Henderson never could do, hit from both sides of the plate. Raines was one of the most successful switch hitters in baseball history.

For six straight years, Raines recorded over 70 stolen bases. The fi rst four years of that streak he led the National League in stolen bases.

As a leadoff hitter,

Raines was just almost as good as Henderson. Raines banged out 2,605 hits in 8,872 at bats, good for a .294 batting average. He had 170 home runs and drove in 980 runs. In 1986, Raines won the National League batting title with a .334 aver-age. Raines hit over .300 eight times, including four straight seasons.

Raines fi nished as run-ner-up to Fernando Valen-zuela as the 1981 Rookie of the Year and made the All Star team seven consecu-tive times, including his rookie season. Three times Raines fi nished in the top 10 of the MVP voting and he won a Silver Slugger Award in 1986.

5. Rafael Palmeiro Palmeiro is one of four

players to accumulate 500

home runs and 3,000 hits in his career. The other three are Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Eddie Murray. All three are in the Hall of Fame.

Palmeiro played for 20 years. He came up with the Chicago Cubs in 1986 and played parts of two seasons and one full sea-son in the Windy City. Over the next 17 years, Palmeiro played for the Texas Rangers and the Baltimore Orioles. He went to Texas for 1989 through 1994 before mov-ing on to Baltimore. Pal-meiro spent 1994 through 1998 with the Orioles. He went back to the Rang-ers for another fi ve years from 1999 through 2003 before playing his fi nal two seasons with Balti-more (2004 and 2005).

On May 11, 2003, Pal-

meiro joined the 500 home run club when he hit a three-run shot against the Cleveland Indians in a game Texas would win 17-10. Two years later, Pal-meiro collected his 3000th hit, an RBI double, on July 15, 2005 in a 6-3 win over the Seattle Mariners while with the Orioles.

Palmeiro never led the league in home runs, but he hit at least 22 every year from 1991 through 2004. Ten times Palmeiro fi nished a season with 30 or more home runs and four times he hit 40-plus.

He was a four time All Star, a three time Gold Glove winner and twice won the Silver Slugger Award.

Tomorrow I will list the remainder of the 10 play-ers whom I would vote for.

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Hall of Fame baseball catcher Carlton Fisk plead-ed guilty Thursday to a mis-demeanor drunken-driving charge, two months after police found him asleep in his pickup truck in a subur-ban Chicago cornfi eld.

Fisk, 64, was sentenced to one year of court supervi-sion and must pay $1,250 in court costs. He also must undergo a drug and alcohol evaluation and counseling.

Fisk’s attorney, Stephen White, said in Will County court that Fisk wanted to accept responsibility for what he did.

‘’He stepped up to the plate,’’ White said.

New Lenox police found Fisk unconscious in the truck on Oct. 22 and said there was an open bottle of vodka on the fl oor. New Lenox is about 35 miles southwest of downtown Chicago.

Fisk became part of an unforgettable baseball mo-ment while playing for the Boston Red Sox when he belted a 12th-inning home run that won Game 6 of the 1975 World Series. He played 11 seasons with the Red Sox and 13 with the Chicago White Sox.

Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk pleads guilty to DUI

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Also playing in the boys tournament will be top seeded Warrenton and No. 8 seed Wright City as well as the host and No. 4 seed Clopton against No. 5 seed Louisiana.

In the girls bracket, Monroe City will look to continue its season-long win streak as the No. 2 seed. Earlier this season the Lady Panthers beat Palmyra in the Monroe

City Tournament and then beat an undefeated Car-rollton team (out of Illi-nois) at John Wood Com-munity College’s Rumble on the River.

The Lady Panthers will play No. 7 seed Wright City on Monday, Dec. 31 at 1:30 p.m. in the old gym.

The rest of the girls bracket features No. 1 Silex against No. 8 Winfi eld and No. 4 Elsbery against No. 5 Christian. Tourney host Clopton will have the No. 3 seed and will face No. 6 seeded Louisiana.

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Hannibal’s Paige Utterback (40) looks for someone to pass the ball to during a home game earlier this season. Utterback and the Lady Pirates will play in the Highland Tourney tonight. FILE PHOTO/CONTRIBUTED BY MATHEW KIRBY

head coach in Detroit - Rod Marinelli for design-ing pass coverage schemes that aren’t easy for him to anticipate.

“(Chicago does) a great job with their safeties and bringing them down really late (to challenge receiv-ers),” he said. “From fi lm, we’ve seen games they haven’t done it as much, but for some reason when we see them, they do a lot of disguising (coverages), which makes it harder (to get open).”

It’s also worth noting that Chicago will be able

to devote more attention to stopping Johnson than they did in the teams’ fi rst meeting of the season be-cause of season-ending injuries to receivers Nate Burleson, Titus Young, and Ryan Broyles.

Lions coach Jim Schwartz admits that his current receiving corps has forced him to rely heavily on Johnson’s production, and off ensive coordinator Scott Linehan says he will have to fi nd creative ways to create space for quar-terback Matthew Staff ord to get Johnson the ball.

“We’re obviously going to have to put (Johnson) in diff erent positions (on the fi eld),” Linehan said.

“There’s going to be even more attention on him with our receiving depth the way it is. Guys have got to be good around him. But I think he’ll still have a productive game the way he’s locked in.”

Johnson isn’t alone in his desire to break the 2,000-yard mark before the season ends. Sever-al of his teammates say they want him to reach the milestone so that he receives the attention they say he has earned by choosing to support the team rather than focus on personal goals.

“He deserves (the recog-nition),” WR Kris Durham said. “He’s a true profes-

sional, he’s a team guy, and I can’t say enough about him. When you’ve have an accomplishment like he had, it’s very easy to con-gratulate him and make (the focus) about him.”

Johnson stopped short of predicting that he would reach the milestone Thursday, but that didn’t stop teammate Rob Sims from echoing the senti-ments of several people in the Lions’ locker room who believe Johnson will reach the 2,000-yard mark.

“(Breaking the 2,000-yard mark) is going to be kind of easy for him,” Sims said. “As good as he is, I think it’s almost a shoe-in.”

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wind and cold at RFK Sta-dium, completing 33 of 43 passes for 395 yards and two touchdowns.

Fales led the drive that set up Austin Lopez’s 27-yard fi eld goal with 4:43 remaining, and De’Leon Eskridge’s 1-yard run with 2:34 left provided the in-surance. Fales was an un-known when he arrived on campus in the spring, but he quickly became the of-fensive leader the Spartans

needed.“He was like that puzzle

piece that was able to make everything come together,’’ Johnson said.

Bowling Green (8-5) had a similar turnaround, improving from 2-10 in 2010 under coach Dave Clawson. A defense that allowed only 15.8 points per game in the regular season - ninth best among FBS schools - did a decent job against a San Jose State team that was averaging 35.3 points.

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