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The top albums of 2010 include some great anniversary reissues with all new unreleased tracks, rock & roll movie soundtracks, female jazz vocalist & my latest favorite current genre- female fronted metal bands. Most femme metal bands are out of Europe & can be classified as gothic metal, symphonic metal, progressive metal, etc. This style is huge around the world & beginning to grow more in America. (thank goodness for itunes & youtube) * some albums may be a bit behind due to american releases or me getting my  hands on it late BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & The E. STREET BAND -THE PROMISE (THE DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN STORY) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tvcAmNlv80 THE ROLLING STONES -EXILE ON MAIN STREET  (2010 REMASTERED with UNRELEASED TRACKS) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6ZnmXrRUIQ ANSOTTICA -RISE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUQY0ZmQyv8 AUTUMN -ALTITUDE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-p1FuG_Kh8&feature=r...

Craig Alan Biggio was born on December 14, 1965 in Smithtown, New York. Biggio was a star athlete at Kings Park high school in Long Islands Suffolk County. There he won the Hansen Award which is given to the top football player in Suffolk County. He received a bunch of football offers but chose to play baseball at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. There he was a team mate of future Met Mo Vaughn & John Valentin. He earned All American Honors & was selected first round (22nd pick overall) by the Houston Astros in 1987. Biggio would debut in 1988 for 50 games & by the following season would be an Astro regular for twenty seasons. He began his career as a catcher, then played two seasons as a centerfielder before switching to a full time second baseman in 1992 winning four Gold Gloves at the position. He is the first player to make the All Star team as a catcher then as second baseman. Biggio would play in seven All Star Games, lead the league in plate app...

Emil Joseph Bavasi was born on December 12, 1914 in Manhattan, New York City. He was the son of Italian immigrants, his father a newspaper distributor. He grew up in Scarsdale, New York & got the name Buzzie from his sister Iola, because he was always buzzing around. He attended Fordham Prep High School in the Bronx, with Fred Frick the son of Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick. In 1938 he landed a job with the Brooklyn Dodgers as a front office assistant under Larry Mcphail. He then worked within the Dodgers minor leagues until being drafted into World War II in 1941. There he won a Bronze Star Medal in the Italian Campaign as machine-gunner for the US Army. When he returned he was hired by Branch Rickey to find a home for Brooklyn’s new minor league level club. He chose a small town in New Hampshire, named Nashua. Bavasi was a key figure in helping baseball & the Dodgers break the color barrier in the 1940’s. At this time there were racial tensions after the signing of Jacki...

Joseph Michael Medwick was born on November 24, 1911 in Carteret, New Jersey. The strong hardnosed player was born to Hungarian immigrants and became a star player any where he played baseball. A woman saw him swimming and said he looked like a duck earning the nickname “Ducky Wucky”. The fans then called him Ducky because of the way he waddled when he walked, but his team mates never dared using that phrase. To players he was known as “Muscles” because of his size & strength. He played hard and had a notorious temper fighting with team mates, opposing players & fans. He once decked a pitcher on his team for walking infron of him to many times when he was being photographed. He punched out another when he criticized him for not running out a fly ball. Legend has it, Medwick was the only player Dizzy Dean was afraid, after he threatened to take him & his brother out with a bat. He came up with the Cardinals in 1932 becoming a ten time All Star & one of the National ...