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Now that we are in the "lull" between Christmas and New Years Eve, I thought it was a good time to have some fun with another edition of "Do you have a funny caption for this photo?"...
On behalf of all of us here at Baseball History Comes Alive, I'd like to extend to all our readers a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! And to all our Jewish friends, a blessed Hanukkah season....
Michael Keedy’s Top Ten Greatest World Series Catches, Numbers Two and Three: Today, Michael Keedy continues with his countdown of the Top Ten Greatest World Series Catches with catches number two and three...
The baseball world was saddened to learn of the recent passing of Curt Simmons (May 19, 1927- December 13, 2022) at age 93. Simmons was the last surviving member of the 1950 "Whiz Kids"...
The reason I love this photo is because it reminds me that after watching baseball for over 65 years, I still can't understand the signals the catcher puts down for the pitcher!...
“I'll knock a homer for Wednesday's game. Babe Ruth” –Inscription on baseball scrawled by Babe Ruth during the 1926 World Series and given to little Johnny Sylvester, recovering from a near-fatal illness....
"Part of the charm of the Polo Grounds…is that a man pitching a game can, without turning his head, listen to fans in the right-field stands ask each other for matches."...
“Baseball fights can be more dangerous than hockey fights, where two players square off, because you’ve got guys running all over the place and people throwing punches at you that you don’t see half the time”...
Sixty-four years ago today, on November 19, 1958, Jackie Jensen was selected as the American League Most Valuable Player. With his selection, Jensen broke the four-year dominance of Yankee MVPs (Yogi Berra, 1954-'55, Mickey Mantle, 1956-'57)...
I thought it might be fun to start a new ongoing series that I'm calling: "Do You Have A Caption For This Photo?" I'll be asking you guys for help. If you stumble on to a baseball photo that we could have some fun with coming up with a humorous caption, please send the photo to me at: Livac2@aol.com...
Today marks the 82nd anniversary of the "Cry-Babies Incident," when Indians owner Alva Bradley finally fired unpopular manager, Ossie Vitt, who had referred to his players as "cry-Babies"...
To those of us who cut our baseball “teeth” in the 1950s in Chicago, we initially had very little awareness that we were living in the Golden Age of baseball—The Fifties—and that New York, with its great three teams was the center of the baseball universe...
If ever any American alive in the first half of the twentieth century were surprised to discover a team from New York in the World Series, he couldn't have been much of a baseball fan...
Today Michael Keedy continues with his ongoing series featuring Top-Ten World Series Catches. Today's entry features Billy Maritn's Series-saving grab in 1952.
Throughout this collection of essays, I have attempted to make the point that the conventional wisdom regarding the Black Sox scandal and the 1919 World Series does not tell the complete story...
Today I’ll continue my weekly “deep dive” into the Black Sox scandal with a look at the 1919 Cincinnati Reds, a strong team completely overshadowed by the events of the scandal...
Black Saturday began innocently enough when a 13-year-old girl ran an errand for her aunt that took her past where the Phillies were playing a doubleheader...
"Ueck" was trying to 'loosen things up' before Game Two of the 1964 World Series between the Cardinals and Yankees at Busch Stadium, so he grabbed a tuba and proceeded to catch fly balls!...
Joe Rudi's spectacular World Series grab happened in Game Two, played on October 14, 1972, and whether it "saved" the first of Oakland's three consecutive world championships is open to debate among baseball scholars...
If you ask most knowledgeable baseball fans the question, “Why did eight Black Sox players conspired to ‘fix’ the 1919 World Series?” the answer you would likely hear is this: “It was Comiskey’s fault. He was a cheapskate.”...
Conventional wisdom tells us that Game One was "thrown" by the White Sox and Eddie Cicotte was the main culprit. Read this essay and see what you think...
Many thanks again to Ray Banko who has come up with another great idea. Ray thought it would be interesting to hear stories from our readers about visiting some of the old ballparks...