Baseball Cards and Sophomore Season: Interview with NL 2024 Rookie of the Year Paul Skenes

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Looking at the career to date of Pittsburgh Pirates’ pitcher Paul Skenes, a line from Bull Durham’s Crash Davis, played by Kevin Costner about fictitious phenom Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) instantly comes to mind: “You got a gift. When you were a baby, the Gods reached down and turned your right arm into a thunderbolt.” But instead of wasting the talent, as Davis would go on to say about LaLoosh, Skenes is living up to Hall of Fame potential early in his career. Fresh off a National League Rookie of the Year, Skenes has full attention from the […]

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