Deadball Era Baseball

The story behind baseball’s most famous poem, and the ballplayers it made famous

Hal Chase: Baseball’s Most Infamous Con Man

Dick Redding: The man who threw faster than Bob Feller

Remembering Nimble, Talented First Baseman Stuffy McInnis

LIST: Most Career Heartbreaking Starts

In 1969, Experts Thought These Were the Greatest Third Basemen

Fightin’ Fred’s: The Feud Between Two of Baseball’s Early Stars

VIDEO: Walter Johnson’s Surprising Pitching Motion

Resurrected by Valdez’s Record Breaking Pitching, Jack Taylor Finally Gets Respect

Looking Back at Ty Cobb’s Big League Debut

Removal of disparaging racial names restores honor to long-forgotten ballplayers

Charles Bender

1909 World Series Scorecard

How Teddy Roosevelt helped make the T206 Honus Wagner card so valuable

Eddie Collins was the greatest second baseman of the Deadball Era

Remembering Eddie Grant, the only active baseball player who died in World War I

Was Ed Delahanty murdered?

How Joe Jackson conspired to lose the World Series

When Ty Cobb took on the entire New York Giants team

A player’s strike almost halted the 1918 World Series

Shoeless Joe Jackson was guilty

The mysterious death of Red Sox manager Chick Stahl

Setting the record straight: The last ball caught before World War I

Walter Johnson: The hardest throwing pitcher in baseball history

Ty Cobb sold me a Coke

Ty Cobb’s horror: Murder in Royston, Georgia