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He was a better second baseman than Charlie Neal, yet he moved cheerfully to third base to allow Neal to play second. Gilliam's nickname on the Dodgers was “The Devil”; he was a good-natured guy with a wicked underside.
This broke by one the previous record of 81, which was shared by Jim Palmer and Roger Clemens. The data for Pettitte and Palmer almost matches. Palmer made 521 starts in his major league career, of which 81 were Big Games.
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When Bowie Kuhn became baseball commissioner in 1969, attendance at games was declining, labor disputes were flaring, and many teams were suffering from poor management and marketing. Fifteen years later,...
The Soul of Baseball is as much the story of Buck O'Neil as it is the story of baseball. Driven by a relentless optimism and his two great passions—for America's pastime and for jazz, America's music—O'Neil played solely for love.
Babe Herman BRO 55.4 Pat Malone CH| 33.7 Bill Walker NY 35.1 |Normalbred OPS Park Adjusted Normalized ERA Park Adjusted Rogers Hornsby CHI 178 Rogers Hornsby CHI 175 Bill Walker NY 153 Bill Walker NY 159 Lefty O'Doul PH 157 Babe Herman ...
Features short biographies on more than 2,000 players listing birth and death dates, major league debut dates, and career statistics.
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MLB Network host and commentator Brian Kenny uses stories from baseball's present and past to examine why we sometimes choose ignorance over information, and how tradition can trump logic, even when directly contradicted by evidence.
A splendid gathering of insightful, witty, beautifully evocative writings on our national pastime. Anyone interested in baseball cannot fail to be captivated by Boswell's penetrating look at the game and...