epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Laurent Pernot

Tinker, Evers, and Chance (left to right, in 1911) may have been sent to the Hall of Fame as much because of a poem as their baseball. Chance batted .296 ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Gaylon H. White

Pinkston got off to a fast start in Columbus with an 8-game hitting streak. Through 24 games, he was batting .321, with 4 homers and 13 RBIs. “They didn’t have ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lee Allen

3 The moratorium on the trading of Groh was lifted, and in December 1921 Garry Herrmann shipped the star third baseman to the Giants, receiving in return a package of ...

epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Peter Handrinos [Handrinos, Peter]

I don’t miss the cheers. I just go to the ballpark, sit in the stands, and pretend they’re cheering for me. On retirement Manny Ramirez Boston police arrested a disoriented ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:Angelo J. Louisa

Despite the pessimism of some of the Pittsburgh press core who thought that the surge was too little too late, the results propelled the Buccos to two and a half ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Tom Van Riper

Chapter 11 Showdown Entering the last day of June 1973, the Reds’ record sat at 39–36. A 12–15 mark during the month had left them 10 games behind the first-place ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Peter Golenbock

In the seventh game Bob Gibson took the ball. There was a time, only recently past, when that would have surprised people, a black pitcher getting the call in a ...

epub |eng | 2008-12-14 | Author:Bill Madden [MADDEN, BILL]

From the very beginning—in 1957 when he arrived for good as the second base heir apparent to Billy Martin—it had become evident to the old-guard Yankees of Casey Stengel that ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-28 | Author:Dirk Lammers

Two baseballs representing Sandy Koufax’s first two no-hitters sit on display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. (Photo by Dirk Lammers) nearly as many batters as he struck out. ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Jonathan Weeks

Willie Davis, Center Field Davis grew up in Los Angeles and was a three-sport star in high school, playing baseball and basketball, while also running track. He was signed by ...

pdf | | 2009-11-26 | Author:Baseball The People's Game (1991)

epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Jeff Blair [Blair, Jeff]

ROSTER MOVES The Blue Jays’ 2002 payroll of $76,864,993 was in fact only a modest decrease from the payroll in Gord Ash’s final year as GM ($76,895,999), but more than ...

pdf |en | | Author: Scott H. Longert

pdf |en | | Author: Peter Dreier, Robert Elias