What rule change prompted Joe DiMaggio to scream foul and get rid of his favorite glove?
In the spring of 1951, Joe DiMaggio’s legendary career was winding down. The 12-time All-Star and three-time Most Valuable Player was even talking about his retirement openly.
See legendary Yankee Joe DiMaggio during introductions before Game One of the 1981 World Series.
Who was the greatest third baseman of all-time? Most would say Mike Schmidt. But in 1969 on MLB’s 100th anniversary, the pickings were slim and strange.
Who had the most hits in Major League Baseball in the 1930s? This baseball list looks at the top ten for that decade.
If you could travel back in time to watch the Baltimore Orioles of the 1890s, you would recognize that they were playing baseball, but you would be shocked at the style of play. The bunting of Willie Keeler would amaze you.
While baseball is growing in popularity in New Zealand, it is nowhere near as major as sports like soccer, rugby, or cricket. However, it is worth noting that baseball has been played in the country since 1888, when the All-Stars led by Albert Spalding faced off against the Chicago Cubs.
Albert Belle finds his name on the Today’s Game ballot for the Hall of Fame. Will the former slugger get support from the voters?
We pick the best baseball player born every year since 1861.
Who was Ferris Fain, the two-time batting champion?
Of the ten names on the Early Days Era ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame, Lefty O’Doul accomplished the most in the game. Whether or not
The Baseball Hall of Fame has released the 10 names that comprise the Golden Days Era Ballot. Voting will take place in early December.
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
Whitey Ford, legendary big game pitcher for the Yankees in the 1950s and 1960s, and best friend to Mickey Mantle, has died.
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
Cecil Travis spent nearly four years serving in World War II and came back with injured feet after they had froze in the Battle of the Bulge.
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
Every year when a team wins the first few games of the baseball season there’s a tendency for fans to get excited. How many games can my
Are some people magic? It’s hard to believe that it’s possible, but if anyone ever was it’s Lawrence Peter Berra. You know him as Yogi — the world
What would it take for a small town with a population under 10,000 to be known for something other than producing two of the greatest players in
I don’t know nearly enough about the “guts” of WAR to know whether it’s great, good, bad, pitiful, or somewhere in between. This IS NOT an article
Baseball history had many pennant races, until the leagues were split into divisions in the late 1960s.
Check out this list BEFORE you go to Cooperstown.
Many consider the 1950s to be the Golden Era of baseball, but the 1930s shouldn’t be overlooked. The 1930s were a marvelous transitional era where stars of
Before a game during the 1983 season, Dale Murphy visited with a six-year old girl who had lost her hands and a leg when she stepped on
29 years before Bucky Dent would become famous for his home run to beat the Red Sox in Game #163 to eliminate Boston, the Yankees and BoSox
Veterans Day is a day to remember and thank those who have sacrificed so much for our country. Some gave their lives. Even those who came back from war have given up much for our country. In the history of baseball, one ballplayer gave up perhaps more than any other with his service to the country. Though he came back alive from World War II, he almost certainly was deprived of baseball immortality.
Today we would call what Ted Williams did in the 1941 All-Star Game a walk-off home run. But for those who were in uniform in Detroit for that game, it’s simply a moment they’ll never forget. In what may still be the most thrilling All-Star Game in history, Williams belted a three-run, game-winning homer in Detroit’s freshly repainted Briggs Stadium on July 8, 1941, with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, to give the American League a thrilling 7-5 victory.
When Juan Marichal stepped on the mound for the first time as a big leaguer, it was the first major league game he had ever seen. Nine innings later, he had made one of the most spectacular debuts in baseball history, and launched a career that would land him in Cooperstown.