Rick Reuschel was an underrated pitcher. He had a career that stacks up well against some lower-level Hall of Famers and several borderline Hall of Famers. But
We pick the best baseball player born every year since 1861.
For the first decade of his career, Bobby Bonds seemed destined for Cooperstown. But then it fell apart.
What’s the best baseball book written by a baseball player? We pick and rank 12 of them.
Joe Jackson batted .375 with 12 hits in the eight games of the 1919 World Series. He led the Chicago White Sox with six runs batted in
Check out this list BEFORE you go to Cooperstown.
Some filmmakers and authors have tried to make Shoeless Joe Jackson a victim. He wasn’t: he took money to throw the World Series.
Deion Sanders is in one sports Hall of Fame: the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. But his thrilling highlight reel of baseball plays makes you
A definitive guide to baseball pitches: how to throw them; how they move; and which pitchers are famous for throwing them.
A list of the best defensive shortstops in baseball since the 1890s. A sort of heavyweight champion list of the best to pick it up the middle.
When he was finally expelled from Major League Baseball, Kingman had hit more home runs than all but 18 players in the history of the game. But his legacy was less about the swings that sent a baseball over fences, and more about his swings that whiffed.
Yesterday we got the news that six former players had been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The new members of the Hall were approved
Allen was a tremendous baseball player who had the misfortune of coming up through an organization that was indelicate about the issue of race.
A game-by-game history of the heated and often dramatic rivalry between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.
Here we are back with the second installment in a series called “Greatness Score,” a system I devised to help rate the candidacy of players for the
“I don’t see how [Rickey] Henderson could do anything more for a team than Tim does.” — teammate Tim Wallach What are the chances that the two
This is the second article in a series on baseball style that we call “Fashion Plate.” When we look back at the 1970s there’s a lot to
On the 17th anniversary of Jackie Robinson Day, the dearth of black players in baseball is a concern for some observers of the sport. In a program
What became known as the “Black Sox Scandal” rocked professional baseball. But it wasn’t an aberration in a sport that was otherwise clean. Baseball became America’s national pastime because of – and not in spite of – gambling.
Eight pitchers have managed to win 100 games for TWO teams. All but two of them are in the Hall of Fame. All of them were great hurlers.
The 20 greatest players in the history of the Atlanta Braves, Milwaukee Braves, and Boston Braves.
Curt Schilling fell 16 votes shy of election in his 9th year on the ballot. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are still well below where they need to be to get elected to Cooperstown. See the complete results here first.
We pick an all-time team comprised of players who had the joy of playing for baseball’s eternal optimist and foulmouth, Tommy Lasorda.
A list of the living members (elected as players) of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The New York spotlight was perfect for the kid from California: the team was woeful, expectations were low, every fourth day all eyes were on him. He was “Tom Terrific.”
The greatest players in the history of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Be ready for lumber and old-time pitchers.
This is part of a series on the greatest players in the history of a franchise based on the advanced statistic called WAR (Wins Above Replacement). First
The sixth installment in a series that looks at the greatest players in franchise histories, based on Wins Above Replacement. 20. Jim Maloney Maybe only three or
In many ways, professional baseball mirrors America, for the good and the bad. Just like the history of the United States, baseball history has been scarred by
