Jim Sundberg is one of the most popular players to ever play for the Texas Rangers. When he came back to the team at the tail end of his career, he brought everything full circle, perfectly.
Roy Smalley was such an erratic infielder that Cubs fans used to say their double play combo was “[Eddie] Miksis to Smalley to Addison Street.” In six
Since 2015, baseball has suffered a succession of losses, stripping the game of an important senior class.
In 1930 the new York Yankees signed Babe Ruth to a contract that paid him the princely sum of $80,000. Ruth was overjoyed. A reporter pointed out
The career of Derek Jeter is a perfect illustration of the multitude of factors that go into a Hall of Fame discussion. And rightly so. The contemporary
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
Most teams that are good for three or four years or more eventually get to a World Series and usually win one. It’s harder now — with the
When Jackie Robinson debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers at the start of the 1947 season it integrated Major League Baseball after several decades of exclusion for player’s
These players were great, but they never had a chance to shine in the Fall Classic.
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
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.