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Jun 21, 2023
The misery for the St. Louis Browns – a condition they faced often during their existence – was almost over on the afternoon of June 15, 1923. Trailing 10-0 with two outs...
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May 17, 2023
Four years before he gave up one of baseball’s most famous home runs, Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca surrendered another historic round-tripper.
In game three of the...
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May 3, 2023
For most of my life I’ve heard/read/seen how Johnny Bench is the greatest catcher in baseball history. (Mickey Cochrane is always ranked number two.)
Then I heard two people...
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Apr 19, 2023
Sally Hoffman knew she was going to get married twice: first, to the love of her life, Michael Crescenzo. Then she married baseball. It was a package deal.
“I had no interest...
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Apr 5, 2023
The New York Mets pulled something much better than a rabbit out of a hat. They pulled Tom Seaver.
He was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in 1966 (who offered him a $50,000 bonus);...
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Mar 22, 2023
ranch Rickey knew breaking baseball’s color barrier would require more kinds of players than African-American ballplayers who could excel in the major leagues. There were...
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Feb 10, 2023
n the summer of 1980, Mark Stewart, a writer who as of today has published more than 200 books, spent a weekend with Bob Feller and his wife.
“One of the conversations that...
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Jan 26, 2023
had a great idea for a column. How do I know it was a great idea? Someone beat me to it.
Half a century after the Brooklyn Dodgers won the World Series, Thomas Oliphant, a national...
May 3, 2023For most of my life I’ve heard/read/seen how Johnny Bench is the greatest catcher in baseball history. (Mickey Cochrane is always ranked number two.) Then I heard two people...
Apr 5, 2023The New York Mets pulled something much better than a rabbit out of a hat. They pulled Tom Seaver. He was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in 1966 (who offered him a $50,000 bonus);...