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January Baseball Trivia Contest: Hall Of Famers
Trivia Contests December 31, 2020January 12, 2021

January Baseball Trivia Contest: Hall Of Famers

January Baseball Trivia Contest and Grand Prize Giveaway! Are you up for the monthly challenge? […]

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Our Annual Tribute to Roberto Clemente: “HE’S GOT IT!!”
Hall of Fame / Latin Ball players / MVPs / Pittsburgh Pirates / Roberto Clemente December 31, 2020January 1, 2021

Our Annual Tribute to Roberto Clemente: “HE’S GOT IT!!”

“If it was humanly possible for a ball to be caught, Roberto Clemente was going to get it.” –Pirates’ manager, Danny Murtaugh

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Merry Christmas To All! Was Willie Mays the Inspiration for the Charlie Brown Christmas Special??
Baseball and Christmas / Willie Mays December 25, 2020December 16, 2024

Merry Christmas To All! Was Willie Mays the Inspiration for the Charlie Brown Christmas Special??

As we get ready to celebrate Christmas (as best we can in this the most dysfunctional year of our lives), whoever thought I’d be able to find a connection between the perennial TV favorite, Charlie Brown’s Christmas Special and baseball!

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BASEBALL HISTORY COMES ALIVE BLOG ARCHIVE PAGE
Blog Topics December 23, 2020July 7, 2023

BASEBALL HISTORY COMES ALIVE BLOG ARCHIVE PAGE

As I mentioned to you the other day, we’re starting a new blog page feature on our Baseball History Comes Alive website.

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We’ve Added A New Blog Page
Babe Ruth December 22, 2020December 23, 2020

We’ve Added A New Blog Page

Bill Gutman and I are very happy to announce that we’ve added a new blog page feature to our Baseball History Comes Alive website…

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My Review of Bill Gutman’s Book, “Murder on Murderer’s Row”
Book Reviews December 19, 2020December 21, 2020

My Review of Bill Gutman’s Book, “Murder on Murderer’s Row”

Bill Gutman has been an integral part of our team here on Baseball History Comes Alive for two and a half years…

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Another in the Series: Baseball’s Characters and Eccentrics – The Brooklyn “Sym-Phony” Band!
Baseball's Eccentrics / Brooklyn Dodgers December 16, 2020February 1, 2023

Another in the Series: Baseball’s Characters and Eccentrics – The Brooklyn “Sym-Phony” Band!

“Sometimes the band sounds like a herd of elephants with whooping cough,” -Murray Schumach. New York Times, 1947…

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ANOTHER EDITION OF “FROM THE LIGHTER SIDE!”: THE NEW YORK METS’ FAMOUS “SIGN MAN”
Baseball's Eccentrics / Bill Schaefer Posts / From the Lighter Side / Odds and Ends December 12, 2020December 12, 2020

ANOTHER EDITION OF “FROM THE LIGHTER SIDE!”: THE NEW YORK METS’ FAMOUS “SIGN MAN”

Karl Kurt Ehrhardt was born in Unterweissbach, Germany, on November 26, 1924, the son of Willie and Elsie Voight Ehrhardt…

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A Tribute to Dick Allen, RIP
Does He Belong in the Hall of Fame? / MVPs / Player Passings December 8, 2020April 22, 2021

A Tribute to Dick Allen, RIP

“One day people will understand that standing up for yourself and your dignity makes you a man and not a malcontent”…

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Featured Ballplayer of the Month: Sandy Koufax

  • Sandy Koufax
  • Sandy with Dodger teammate and fellow Hall-of-Famer, Don Drysdale
  • Don Sutton with Tommy Lasorda and Sandy Koufax
  • Sandy Koufax and Wally Moon during the 1959 World Series
  • Sandy sets World Series strike out record, 1963
  • Teammates mob Sandy adter the Perfect Game
  • Sandy signing balls
  • Sandy Koufax and Jim Palmer
  • Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax yields a hit to Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Memorial Stadium. St. Louis, Missouri 9/17/1963 (Image # 1049 )
  • Sandy after recording 14 KO's (Getty Images)
  • Maury Wills, Sandy Koufax, Willie Davis
  • A young Sandy Koufax
  • Sandy Koufax and Willie Davis
  • Sandy hoolding up four no-hitter balls.
  • Whitey Ford with Sandy Koufax
  • Jeff Torborg caught Sandy's Perfect Game.
  • Sandy Koufax at the time of the Johnny Roseboro incident
  • Don Drysdale, Pete Richert, Stan Williams, Sandy Koufax, Johnny Podres
  • Sandy Koufax
  • Sandy Koufax with Carl Erskine, October 2, 1963 (Getty Images)
  • Sandy Koufax with his mother and father
  • Jim Kaat with Sandy Koufax in the 1965 World Series
  • A young Sandy Koufax with the Brooklyn Dodgers
  • Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale with Tommy Lasorda and Duke Snider
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  • Don Newcombe with Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax
  • Stan Musial with Sandy Koufax and Warren Spahn
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  • Don with Sandy Koufax
  • Sandy Koufax, 1965 after the final out of his Perfect Game
  • Sandy Koufax later in life
  • Three greats, Sandy Koufax, Tom Seaver, Bob Gibson
  • Sandy Koufax threw a no-hitter at Shibe Park on June 4, 1964
  • Box score from Sandy's Perfect Game,, Seept. 9, 1965

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