For much of his career, the Giants slugger was juiced up with performance-enhancing drugs, which made many of his accomplishments questionable.
This is the third installment of my “Top 20” series, looking at the top players for a specific franchise based solely on Wins Above Replacement. Quibble if
MLB’s next expansion team may be located in Salt Lake City. Here’s a history of professional baseball in that Utah city.
Gary Sheffield never cared much what people thought of him. Now, that may be backfiring on the former All-Star slugger. In the latest results of the Baseball Hall of Fame voting by the writers, Sheffield fell shy of gaining election in the 10th and final time his name will be on that ballot.
A look at the myths, legends, and origin stories of baseball.
The game of baseball has produced a wide array of legendary players. If you love baseball, you should get acquainted with the best baseball players of all time.
From Willie Mays to Barry Bonds, the Giants have had some of the game’s greatest players wear their uniform and, for that reason, are loved by many.
Who was the greatest Red Sox second baseman: Dustin Pedroia or Bobby Doerr?
The Greatest Players in Baseball History: Some of the Most Iconic Figures
Todd Helton’s batting accomplishments, in Denver AND away from Colorado, are more than enough to make him a Hall of Famer
Two pitching families ended up with eerily similar output for all their years in the majors. Gaylord Perry was at the head of the best of them.
We pick the best baseball player born every year since 1861.
Did David Ortiz stop using performance-enhancing drugs in 2003 after he failed a test? Or did he use them throughout his Hall of Fame career?
Just when baseball seemed to be getting drunk on home runs, Tony Gwynn emerged to reveal the beauty of hitting a baseball.
We select an all-time team from those who played under famed baseball manager Dusty Baker.
These five players who failed to get into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2022, will be elected eventually.
Danny Murtaugh was a humble Irishman with a bad ticker who led the Pirates to two World Series titles.
A game-by-game history of the heated and often dramatic rivalry between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.
The Baseball Hall of Fame has never tinkered with the 75 percent voting standard for election. Since the first ballots were cast in the first vote in
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.
Since 2015, baseball has suffered a succession of losses, stripping the game of an important senior class.
What do people want from Joey Votto? The answer to that question will tell you what they think of him. But he doesn’t give a damn.
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
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
In this, the latest installment of my series on franchise leaders, I focus on the greatest Twins of all-time. At least according to Wins Above Replacement, otherwise
The oldest Hall of Famer passed away today, leaving behind a legion of fans despite having played his last baseball game more than six decades ago. Bobby
Eddie Collins buried his bats during the off-season in shallow holes in his backyard that he called “graves” in order to keep them “lively.” That’s odd, for
If there’s a baseball bat around it’s hard to resist picking it up and taking a stance. We’ve all done it. Some of us who played baseball
Harold Baines was on the Hall of Fame ballot for five years, never receiving as many as 50 votes. When he dipped below five percent in 2011,