The web page for Kenesaw Mountain Landis on MLB.com, official website of Major League Baseball, makes no mention of prejudice or racism. The Most Valuable Player Award,
There’s a hierarchy in Los Angeles sports, a pecking order in southern California. It goes like this: Dodgers Lakers Kings Raiders Everyone else “Everyone else” consists of
In 1930 the new York Yankees signed Babe Ruth to a contract that paid him the princely sum of $80,000. Ruth was overjoyed. A reporter pointed out
When his name first appeared on a Hall of Fame ballot in 2003, Ryne Sandberg received 244 votes, or just below 50%. In 2004, the former Cubs’
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
Hall of Famer Monte Irvin, a fantastic baseball player and a great all-around athlete, has passed away at the age of 96.
On Easter Sunday, Carlos Gomez drew the wrath of Pirates’ pitcher Gerrit Cole after performing a bat-flip of dramatic proportions. Cole felt he was being shown up,
No less a respected baseball observer than Red Barber once wrote that “Marvin Miller, along with Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson, is one of the three most
Very few men have felt the joy of hitting a home run to give their team the pennant.
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
Yeah, it probably has a lot to do with Kevin Costner.
Check out this list BEFORE you go to Cooperstown.
When Jackie Robinson debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers at the start of the 1947 season it integrated Major League Baseball after several decades of exclusion for player’s
Few Hall of Famers forged as diverse a career in baseball as Ford Christopher Frick, who was instrumental in the establishment of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum 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.
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.
You have to wonder if Freddie Patek would even get drafted by a major league team today.