For more than 120 years, the winners of the American and National leagues have met to determine the champions of Major League Baseball. With the exception of
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 definitive guide to baseball pitches: how to throw them; how they move; and which pitchers are famous for throwing them.
We look back at the last three times the New York Mets appeared in the World Series.
Moments we’d like to see as some of the Met all-time greatest players and fan favorites gather at Citi Field for the first Old Timers’ Game since 1994.
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.”
What is the greatest catcher/pitcher combination in baseball history? The best duo to ever form a battery? How do we answer that question? Where do we start?
When his name first appeared on a Hall of Fame ballot in 2003, Ryne Sandberg received 244 votes, or just below 50%. In 2004, the former Cubs’
Sadly, we lost Hall of Fame outfielder Tony Gwynn this week to cancer. Gwynn was without question the best pure hitter in the game of baseball in
Next week the Baseball Hall of Fame will announce the results of a veterans committee election that considers 12 candidates from the Expansion Era. It’s the first election in the new Hall of Fame balloting process that has the voting separated into three ballots based on era: Expansion (1973-present), Golden (1947-1972), and Pre-Integration (1871-1946). Every year one of the ballots will be addressed. A small group (16) will vote in seclusion during the winter meetings. Any candidate receiving 12 votes will be elected.
Opening Day is unique to baseball. Other sports have season openers, but baseball’s Opening Day marks the ceremonial beginning of spring. It may only be 1/162nd of the season, but fans and players alike admit there’s something special about the first game of the schedule.
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