In the history of baseball, since they began tossing a ball to a plate and someone with a stick was swinging at it, maybe no more than
Allen was a tremendous baseball player who had the misfortune of coming up through an organization that was indelicate about the issue of race.
Ted Williams liked to select the lumber for his bats, which is why he’s shown here in Kentucky at the Louisville Slugger factory in the prime of his career.
Danny Murtaugh was a humble Irishman with a bad ticker who led the Pirates to two World Series titles.
The Baseball Hall of Fame has released the 10 names that comprise the Golden Days Era Ballot. Voting will take place in early December.
The 2021 season will be the last of Buster Posey‘s career. The Giants’ catcher, after a resurgent year, is hanging up his chest protector after 12 years,
Jerry Remy, who played ten seasons in the American League for the California Angels and Boston Red Sox in the 1970s and early 1980s, passed away on
This week PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) asked Major League Baseball to stop using the term “bullpen,” suggesting the new description be “Arm Barn.”
This December, when a group of 16 baseball officials and historians meet for the Baseball Hall of Fame Special Eras Committee, you can expect that at least
For most people who are old enough, Game Six of the 1986 World Series is remembered for an error by Bill Buckner that helped the Mets win
The 1909 World Series was important for a few reasons. It pitted two of the greatest stars in baseball at the time, one of them a veteran
A game-by-game history of the heated and often dramatic rivalry between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.
Just because we have progress, doesn’t necessarily mean things get better. That’s one way to look at fashion and sports and specifically baseball. Yes, you can order
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
Among Hall of Famers, Roberto Alomar may be the least attached to any one team or city. Like a nomad, or maybe a villain, Alomar ping-ponged around the league.
How many home runs did Babe Ruth hit? Which teams did Ty Cobb play for? Did Barry Bonds use steroids? These are all questions that baseball fans
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
Willie McCovey is best remembered for the hit he did NOT get. But even that was a screaming line drive, and had it fallen in, baseball history would have changed.
One of the annoying things you’ll hear people say when they argue about the Hall of Fame is this: “So and so is a Hall of Famer.
Once, when Max Scherzer was pitching in college for the University of Missouri, a teammate asked him during a game why he threw a fastball to a
These were happier and healthier times for Steve and Cyndy Garvey. Garvey is one of the best first basemen to ever play for the Los Angeles Dodgers,
This rare film clip shows Detroit manager Ty Cobb and one of his pitchers, Earl Whitehill, on a visit to a Detroit-area jail in the early 1920s.
The last time the Cleveland Indians won the World Series was in 1948, when they defeated the Boston Braves in six games. It’s still early, but the
Hitting two home runs in a game is not easy. But imagine hitting two home runs in a single inning. A lot has to go right for
The most no-hitters in a career is seven by Nolan Ryan, who is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Nolan Ryan’s No-Hit Games May 15,
I was only a few days into my tenure working at the Baseball Hall of Fame when I found myself sitting in a meeting in which staff
Bobby Doerr wasn’t elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame until he was an old man. Joe Gordon was pushing up daisies by the time he was
The Green Monster is one of the most famous pieces of real estate in sports. It looms over the playing field at Fenway Park, a marvelous attraction,
The Detroit Tigers gave Bill Freehan a $100,000 bonus off the campus of the University of Michigan. That was probably the best money the team ever spent.
The first trade that shook the game of baseball occurred prior to the 1893 season, when the New York Giants traded star catcher Buck Ewing to Cleveland