How MANY runs a batter drives in isn’t as important as how many opportunities he has and how many he converts.
The Niekro’s, the Perry’s, Barry and Bobby Bonds…these are baseball’s greatest families.
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
Lost among the superstars on the Big Red Machine was a quiet, unusual slugger named George Foster.
The Pirates never got the publicity the Big Red Machine did for their 1970s success. But they had an equally intimidating nickname.
These players deserve to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Before a game during the 1983 season, Dale Murphy visited with a six-year old girl who had lost her hands and a leg when she stepped on
It’s surprisingly difficult to select the greatest pitcher in the history of the Cincinnati Reds.
Very few players have won a title with both the Yankees and Red Sox. Do you know who they are?
Through 2020, there have been 139 Ultimate Games in modern baseball history (since 1903). 40 Ultimate Games have occurred in the Fall Classic (most recently in 2019),
Of all professional team sports in North America, baseball has been around the longest. Springing out of the 19th (and perhaps even 17th or earlier) centuries, it’s
2020 October 17, 2020, at Petco Park, San DiegoTampa Bay Rays vs. Houston AstrosAL Championship Series Game SevenAt Stake: Spot in World Series The Rays eliminated the
After an 88-year journey, the Braves finally made it to the .500 mark again in 2011 after 88 years.
After serving a “time out” of sorts for his behavior during his playing career, which included an umpire spitting incident, Roberto Alomar was elected to the National
For the first time since 1999, the Baseball Hall of Fame will induct a starting pitcher this summer, but it won’t be Jack Morris. Morris, who won more games (by far) than any other pitcher in the 1980s, and who pitched one of the greatest games in baseball history in Game Seven of the 1991 World Series, is still waiting for his Cooperstown call. With Blyleven now off the ballot, Morris’s candidacy will take center stage over the next three years – his final three chances via the Baseball Writers.
Normally, trading a future Hall of Fame player is the death knell for a major league general manager. But when Pat Gillick did it he laid the groundwork for historic success. In 1999, Gillick, with impressive credentials on his resume, replaced Woody Woodward as General Manager of the Seattle Mariners. The team’s superstar center fielder Ken Griffey Jr. was grumbling about the lack of support on the roster and issued a trade demand. Woodward had famously told reporters, “I don’t want to be the guy remembered for trading Ken Griffey Jr. away from the Mariners.” Gillick had no such fear.
Next week the Baseball Hall of Fame will announce the results of a veterans committee election that considers 12 candidates from the Expansion Era. It’s the first election in the new Hall of Fame balloting process that has the voting separated into three ballots based on era: Expansion (1973-present), Golden (1947-1972), and Pre-Integration (1871-1946). Every year one of the ballots will be addressed. A small group (16) will vote in seclusion during the winter meetings. Any candidate receiving 12 votes will be elected.
From 1903-1989, every World Series winning team except two have boasted at least one future Hall of Famer on their roster. In most of the cases, the winning team has had more than one player who have gone on to be immortalized in Cooperstown.
Throughout baseball history, great players have produced great moments in dramatic games, and Hall of Fame members are no exception, providing numerous memorable moments in a winner-take-all contests of the Fall Classic.
Those who work in baseball for a living are fond of saying that without the fans there wouldn’t be a game. Rarely, however, do the fans get their due. One owner, Hall of Famer Bill Veeck, did his best to pay tribute to the fans and put them center stage.
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.
Opening Day is unique to baseball. Other sports have season openers, but baseball’s Opening Day marks the ceremonial beginning of spring. It may only be 1/162nd of the season, but fans and players alike admit there’s something special about the first game of the schedule.