Some of you might be familiar with the first ever baseball strike, but this is the first I've ever heard of it, started when Ty Cobb went into the stands to beat a heckler. When Cobb was suspended, the Tigers went on strike. But as...
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Tonight's Pathe film shows a psychological experiment from 1960 revolving around teaching a chicken to play baseball. Sound is lost. Really, this chicken would be in the upper half of.
Happy Opening Day. For that, here's two of the best songs ever written about an individual baseball player. First, there is Buddy Johnson's "Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That.
I had never read this 1985 Al Stump remembrance of Ty Cobb's last days. This is pretty amazing stuff. But hey, at the least the Hall of Fame is full of only the most upstanding characters, so thank god those modern cheaters doing nothing actually...
On December 24, 1969, St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Curt Flood wrote a letter to Major League Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn protesting a trade to the Philadelphia Phillies and asking to.
A year ago yesterday, ESPN ranked its top 100 baseball players of all time. @oldhossradbourn provided running commentary. I had not seen it all collected into one site until now..
While I have no problem with Bobby Cox, Joe Torre, and Tony LaRussa getting elected to the Hall of Fame, evidently the standard for being a great manager is working for a high-revenue team over a very long time. What I'd like to see is...
The Mariners sign 36 year-old "scrappy" veteran Willie Bloomquist, possessor of both a pedigree with the M's, and a local connection, to a two-year contract at between $2.5 and $3.
Jeffery Loria. Who may also be the worst sports owner of all time, a category that includes racist slum lord/owner of the most embarrassingly bad team in the NBA for.
What a surprise that billionaire sports owners would steal from their poorest employees: Two Major League Baseball clubs–the San Francisco Giants and Miami Marlins—are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor for possible federal wage law violations. The investigations come amid wider concern about...
Maybe it's me, but if a manager's previous employer was compelled to fire him in mid-September while his team was holding a playoff spot, he's probably not someone you want.
Here's the thing about ketchup. It's disgusting and those who love it should reexamine their priorities and the meaning of their lives. So I am righteously outraged that the Detroit.