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Who says the number 13 is unlucky? I doubt Christy Mathewson would agree with that old adage. “Big Six” recorded two career milestone victories on June 13th...
The War Years between 1942-45 decimated many major league ballclub rosters. As the country deeply progressed into wartime, there were thoughts that the major leagues should be discontinued...
There's talk right now about baseball starting up around the July 4th weekend. There's also different proposals about the length of the new season and the format...
Thanks to one of our readers, Don Jennings, I think I may have uncovered one of the rarest achievements in all of baseball, something you probably haven't really thought much about...
In today’s interesting essay, Paul Doyle gives us a summary of how the game has evolved regarding home runs, contrasting the Dead Ball Era with the Live Ball Era and with our present post-1965 era...
Today we feature something special for all our readers. I recently had a lengthy phone conversation with Pittsburgh resident Sean Gibson, the great-grandson of Josh Gibson...
More than 350 sets of brothers have played in the major leagues, but the only three brothers to have been All-Stars are the DiMaggio’s, with a total of 18 selections...
As we sit at home waiting to see if baseball will be played in these unsettling times, our attention turns from hitting percentages to virus fatality percentages and hope that it stays way, way below the Mendoza line...
Time To Put Your Thinking Caps On! Here's a picture of Babe Ruth as a Boston Brave with a bunch of players in Red Sox uniforms. It’s from the Boston Public Library Leslie Jones collection...
It happened exactly 59 years ago yesterday, April 28, 1961. Warren Spahn, just five days past his 40th birthday, becomes the second-oldest pitcher in major league history to throw a no-hitter...
Since I’m homebound like just about everybody else, I thought this would be a good time to catch up on a few things on my “to do” list. One item high on the list was my intention to finally watch The Pride of the Yankees...
Do you have 15 minutes to spare? I know you love baseball history, so do yourself a big favor and travel back in a virtual time machine to 1931 to see this incredible footage, filmed with an early Movietone Sound camera...
"Glenn Beckert was a wonderful person who also happened to be an excellent ballplayer.” –Statement from the Chicago Cubs upon the passing of Glenn Beckert...
As we ponder our existence in a world without baseball, I thought it might be fun to pass some time debating something real basic: Who was the greatest hitter of all-time?...
We need to lighten up the mood a bit! With things being a bit grim these days for all of us (especially baseball fans), we need to have a little fun...
“Jimmy’s success on the field helped build our franchise from its beginnings. After his retirement, his tireless work in the community impacted thousands of young people in Houston..."
Many of you will remember that about six weeks ago, I started a poll asking our readers how they feel about the new 3-batter minimum rule for relief pitchers. Here’s the tally so far...
While not a Hall-of-Famer, Gilliam was a clutch performer who had a fine career. It included membership, as either a player or coach, on ten Dodger pennant winners and four World Series championships...
Here’s a photo from the Boston Red Sox clubhouse in Fenway Park vintage 1928. Check out all the details of what a clubhouse from years ago actually looked like...
Today, I’ll continue with my series of great Norman Rockwell paintings showing scenes from baseball. The Rookie, shown above, appeared on the March 2, 1957 cover of the Saturday Evening Post magazine...
It’s been a long while since I featured ballplayers and their wives, so now’s a good time to shine our baseball spotlight on Hall-of-Famer, Lefty Gomez and his marriage to the beautiful actress, June O'Dea...
The best known of Norman Rockwell’s baseball-themed paintings is probably his 1948, The Three Umpires, which appeared on the April 23, 1949 cover of The Saturday Evening Post...