Hank Aaron and Jackie Rob/Cool Papa Bell and Hank Leonard/Yeah, they set the stage/But the baddest of them all was prob'ly Satchel Paige/Yeah, clear as the air you breathe/This beat is ballin' like the Negro League
That isn't the rap of your usual children's entertainer - some kind of square, after-school-special hip-hop dabbler. Far from it. That verse is intoned by none other than the Doggfather himself, Snoop Dogg, on a compilation album of raps and R&B out today benefiting Kansas City's Neg
Sunday's Kansas City Star featured a really lame story about the art of the "slumpbuster," devoting only a couple of paragraphs to the real meaning of the
baseball slang, burying them deep in the story and even calling the ritual "disgusting" and "reprehensible." This is how you make a story about slumpbusting boring. The daily wasn't about to mention s-e-x or define the term the way notorious slumpbuster and former Chicago Cub Mark Grace did (to be fair, they mention Grace but dance around his
