Bill Conlin

Bill Conlin came to Daily News in May 1965 following five years at the Evening Bulletin. Penn State football, boxing and Big 5 beats; Phillies beat writer 1966. Columnist spring 1987. Covered 37 World Series; multiple Orange, Sugar, Rose, Cotton, Fiesta, Gator Bowls; Winter Olympics Calgary, Albertville, Lillehammer, Nagano; Summer Olympics Sydney; 5 Wimbledons, Pan Am Games Indianapolis, Havana; multiple boxing title fights. First place National Best News Story E.P. Dutton Best Sports Stories 1964, 1979, runnerup 1968, 1975, 1977; Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year; multiple Keystone Awards column writing; 2003 N.J. Sportswriters Association Journalistic Excellence Award; author Rutledge Book of Baseball; Batting Cleanup, Bill Conlin.

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Michael Taylor somehow was snubbed for All-Star Futures Game.

Bill Conlin: If Michael Taylor isn't a 'Futures' star, who is?

Posted 07/03/2009

WHEN I'M KING of the World . . . The deep thinkers who select the rosters for the All-Star break's showcase Futures Game - the intelligentsia of Baseball America, MLB Scouting Bureau and 30 big-league clubs - will lose the political agendas and select the best talent available . . . I kn

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HONORABLE MENTIONS

Bill Conlin: Don't overlook baseball's other substance-abuse story - 06/24/2009: LOOK, IT'S A speeding Hummer with a professional athlete behind the wheel. It's June, so it's probably a baseball player. Good thing he's driving because he's too drunk to walk . . .
Bill Conlin: Phillies need to visit when they're back in town - 06/22/2009: THERE IS ONLY one thing left to do now that the Phillies are officially the worst home team since France.
Phillies prospect Michael Taylor a heavyweight five-tooler - 06/19/2009: JUST SAY NO, RUBEN. Be firm and resolute. Look to the near future even when the present appears to call for swift and decisive action.
Bill Conlin: Conlin's All-Time Phillies Call-Stars - 06/17/2009: CALL THEM THE All-Time Phillies Call-Stars, 20 gifted athletes with brain-powered tonsils that elevated them from the playing field to the broadcast booth or TV studio.
Bill Conlin: In desperate times, Nationals must throw cash at Strasburg - 06/11/2009: THE WASHINGTON Nationals were desperately seeking Stephen. Many scouting reports project 103 mph righthander and multimillionaire-to-be Stephen Strasburg as a possible immediate impact pitcher.
Bill Conlin: 28 years ago, Rose and baseball were put on hold - 06/09/2009: JUNE 10, 1981, was the night Major League Baseball went eyeball-to-eyeball on two levels. On the field, Pete Rose blinked. The Phillies' leadoff hitter slapped a historic single, then Nolan Ryan blew him away three times.
Bill Conlin: Bastardo performs laser surgery in Phillies debut - 06/04/2009: FEELING BETTER now? Staying up late Tuesday night to watch the major league debut of Phillies lefthander Antonio Bastardo was worth it, right? Hope you were in bed counting sheep or Raul Ibanez RBI by the time Chan Ho "Duck!" turned the 10-1 lead the Dominican rookie handed him into a nails-on-blackboard adventure that forced Charlie Manuel to reluctantly bring weary Ryan Madson out of the bullpen in the ninth to clean up Chad Durbin's two-out, bases-loaded mess.
Bill Conlin: Sometimes numbers don't mean a thing - 06/02/2009: WHEN I'M KING of the World . . . The number of pitchers on major league disabled lists will run once a week next to the pitching stats . . . This just in: As of yesterday there are 102 pitchers on MLB disabled lists. That's an average of 3.4 pitchers per ballclub. An e-mailer explained to me that's not an excessive total. OK . . . I guess we don't have to lower the pitch counts after all.
Bill Conlin: Organizing a revolt against the pitching count - 05/29/2009: SOME REVOLUTIONS begin quietly, a few individuals seeking change in a back room as opposed to thousands marching on a palace. A month ago, Nolan Ryan, president of the Texas Rangers, sent a directive to the entire organization, banning use of pitch counts as a way to regulate how deep starting pitchers went in games.
Argue with Conlin about Top 50 list - 05/22/2009: GENTLEMEN, START your arguments. When the Phillies take on the Yankees this weekend in the $1.5 billion House That Ruthless Built, the teams will field nine of the 50 greatest players in the game today.