Earlier this month, the Baseball Hall of Fame announced the ten names on the Today’s Game Ballot. A group of 16 will vote on the ballot and
With his success with the Nationals in 2012, Davey Johnson has made it nearly impossible to keep him out of the Hall of Fame. Hasn’t he?
When the Cincinnati Reds named 36-year old George Anderson as their manager during the 1969-1970 off-season, newspapers in the city asked “Sparky Who?” Within a few years, he was one of the few men in sports who was known by one name.
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
The passing of Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson at the age of 86 has robbed the world of one of the nicest people to ever live. Brooks was a treasure, first to his family and friends, and anyone who was lucky enough to meet him.
We pick the best baseball player born every year since 1861.
Why is Jim Rice in the Baseball Hall of Fame, but George Foster is not?
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
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.
It’s possible that no other position player has ever dominated a World Series to the extent Brooks Robinson did in 1970. That October, Robinson was dazzling in the field and at the plate as the Baltimore Orioles defeated Cincinnati in the Fall Classic.
Hall of Famer Joe Morgan, a two-time Most Valuable Player and the greatest second baseman in history, has died.
The greatest players in the history of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Be ready for lumber and old-time pitchers.
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
Once upon a time, the Baltimore Orioles were baseball’s model franchise. From the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, the Orioles were the most successful team in the
The dynamic between a manager and a pitcher is pivotal for team success. The manager needs a strong pitcher, the pitcher needs a manager who trusts him.
This article has been updated. Now that Jack Morris and Alan Trammell have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, the 1984 Tigers have two members
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
Let’s play a facts game about baseball managers. FACT: Every man elected to the Hall of Fame as a manager won at least three pennants. FACT: Only
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
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
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
Lost among the superstars on the Big Red Machine was a quiet, unusual slugger named George Foster.
It’s surprisingly difficult to select the greatest pitcher in the history of the Cincinnati Reds.
2020 October 17, 2020, at Petco Park, San DiegoTampa Bay Rays vs. Houston AstrosAL Championship Series Game SevenAt Stake: Spot in World Series The Rays eliminated the
From 1903-1989, every World Series winning team except two have boasted at least one future Hall of Famer on their roster. In most of the cases, the winning team has had more than one player who have gone on to be immortalized in Cooperstown.
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.