1920s Baseball
Quick Notes: Jack Morris and Burleigh Grimes
We compare Hall of Fame pitchers Jack Morris and Burleigh Grimes.
Willie Wells is One of the Greatest Shortstops You’ve Never Heard Of
Hall of Fame shortstop Willie Wells was probably every bit as great at hitting a baseball as Rogers...
Lefty O’Doul deserves Baseball Hall of Fame nod
Of the ten names on the Early Days Era ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame, Lefty O'Doul...
VIDEO: Ty Cobb at a Detroit jail with pitcher Earl Whitehill, circa 1925
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf2SZilrqXQ Ty Cobb and Earl Whitehill visit a jail in Michigan This rare film clip shows Detroit manager...
Remembering the longest-running outfield in baseball history
Usually when teams form a talented outfield they patch it together with young players. But the St. Louis...
Babe Ruth’s failed stolen base attempt ended the 1926 World Series, or did it?
What are the odds that George Springer will get thrown out trying to steal second base in the...
Scandals clouded the 2019 and 1924 World Series
It seemed as if much of the nation was pulling for the Washington Nationals in the 2019 World...
Wally Pipp was more than just a headache
Wally Pipp has been reduced to an answer to a trivia question. He's a footnote on the career...
Babe Ruth and baseball’s most famous bellyache
Even in the 1920s before the advent of cable news channels and social media, when you were the...
O’Doul’s exclusion from Hall of Fame ballot is a mistake
Next month in Nashville, the National Baseball Hall of Fame will announce the results of voting for the...
Walter Johnson: The hardest throwing pitcher in baseball history
When Walter Johnson pitched his first professional game, he lost 21-0. Almost all of the runs were scored...
Chick Hafey’s batting rampage of 1931
When Charles “Chick” Hafey first caught Branch Rickey’s eye in the spring of 1923, it was a case...
When a girl struck out Ruth and Gehrig
When Babe Ruth went down on strikes in an exhibition game in Chattanooga in 1931, it was at...