Nashville may receive an MLB expansion franchise soon. Which means it’s a good time to look back at Biz Mackey, the Hall of Fame catcher who is likely the greatest pro baseball player to ever represent Nashville.
After flirting with the .400 mark, Babe Ruth, the man who would rewrite the baseball record books, won his only batting title.
Observers insist Dick Redding could throw a baseball at least as fast as Walter Johnson. Yet, the color of his skin kept him from proving it in the white major leagues.
Stuffy McInnis was the best fielding first baseman in the American League for nearly a decade, and he was employed by two of baseball’s greatest dynasties.
These pitchers had the most starts with one run earned run or less over 9 innings without getting a win.
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.
What was the secret that helped Walter Johnson throw so much harder than his contemporaries?
Two stars of the Philadelphia Athletics, Al Simmons and Jimmie Foxx, sign autographs for kids at the ballpark, circa 1931.
Babe Ruth left his mark on the game like no other. He was an overgrown kid, an ungovernable force who swept his way through the sporting world, dominating headlines every year after he became a Yankee until his death nearly three decades later.
We compare Hall of Fame pitchers Jack Morris and Burleigh Grimes.
Hall of Fame shortstop Willie Wells was probably every bit as great at hitting a baseball as Rogers Hornsby was.
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
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.
Usually when teams form a talented outfield they patch it together with young players. But the St. Louis Browns built their famous outfield in the 1920s from
What are the odds that George Springer will get thrown out trying to steal second base in the ninth inning with two outs tonight in Game Seven
It seemed as if much of the nation was pulling for the Washington Nationals in the 2019 World Series, completed on Wednesday when the Nats prevailed in
Wally Pipp has been reduced to an answer to a trivia question. He’s a footnote on the career of a great player. But Pipp deserves better: he
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Even in the 1920s before the advent of cable news channels and social media, when you were the most famous athlete in America, your health was front
Next month in Nashville, the National Baseball Hall of Fame will announce the results of voting for the Pre-Integration Era ballot. Ten candidates are on the ballot,
When Walter Johnson pitched his first professional game, he lost 21-0. Almost all of the runs were scored on third strikes that his catcher failed to secure because of their speed. Johnson threw hard.
When Charles “Chick” Hafey first caught Branch Rickey’s eye in the spring of 1923, it was a case of mistaken identity. Hafey was in the Cardinal camp as a right-handed pitcher, but Rickey saw him in the batting cage, and after he sped down the first base line later that day, the St. Louis manager was certain he had the makings of an outfielder.
When Babe Ruth went down on strikes in an exhibition game in Chattanooga in 1931, it was at the hand of a pitcher described as having “a swell change of pace,” as well as a “mean lipstick.”