Now that pitcher Jon Lester has announced his retirement from baseball, what are his chances of being elected to the Hall of Fame?
Yesterday we got the news that six former players had been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The new members of the Hall were approved
Gil Hodges and Minnie Miñoso are among the new members of the Baseball Hall of Fame, after results were announced of two elections by two separate committees.
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.
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,
A game-by-game history of the heated and often dramatic rivalry between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.
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
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
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
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.
Cheating in baseball is as old as the game itself, and pitchers’ modifying the ball’s surface is part of that long history. Adding to the lore of
What became known as the “Black Sox Scandal” rocked professional baseball. But it wasn’t an aberration in a sport that was otherwise clean. Baseball became America’s national pastime because of – and not in spite of – gambling.
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.
The 20 greatest players in the history of the Atlanta Braves, Milwaukee Braves, and Boston Braves.
We pick an all-time team comprised of players who had the joy of playing for baseball’s eternal optimist and foulmouth, Tommy Lasorda.
We honor the most accomplished man to ever throw a knuckleball.
It’s possible that no other position player has ever dominated a World Series to the extent Brooks Robinson did in 1970. That October, Robinson was dazzling in the field and at the plate as the Baltimore Orioles defeated Cincinnati in the Fall Classic.
Hall of Famer Joe Morgan, a two-time Most Valuable Player and the greatest second baseman in history, has died.
For all his accomplishments in uniform, Gibson’s influence on the culture of baseball is often overlooked.
Cal Ripken Jr. rates as the best shortstop in baseball history according to our all-time rankings. He was a 19-time All-Star, two-time MVP, Rookie of the Year,
This is part of a series on the greatest players in the history of a franchise based on the advanced statistic called WAR (Wins Above Replacement). First
The sixth installment in a series that looks at the greatest players in franchise histories, based on Wins Above Replacement. 20. Jim Maloney Maybe only three or
The Baseball Hall of Fame has changed their veterans committee election rules like the political parties draw up congressional districts. The folks in Cooperstown have redrawn the
Dave Roberts may have thought he was doing Clayton Kershaw’s legacy a favor when he kept the pitcher in Game Five of the 2019 NLDS to start
Morganna Roberts was only 15 years old when she kissed her first baseball player, Pete Rose in Cincinnati in 1969. But over the next twenty-plus years, she
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
Once upon a time, the Baltimore Orioles were baseball’s model franchise. From the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, the Orioles were the most successful team in the
What is the greatest catcher/pitcher combination in baseball history? The best duo to ever form a battery? How do we answer that question? Where do we start?
In this, the latest installment of my series on franchise leaders, I focus on the greatest Twins of all-time. At least according to Wins Above Replacement, otherwise