Lt. Robinson roamed the athletic fields of Camp Breckinridge, wondering what he would do after he was discharged from the army. Fortunately, a chance encounter with a fellow soldier held the answer… […]
No other moment in sports history comes close to that single game in October, 1951. Countless non-fiction books have been written about the ’51 pennant race, the game, what happened to the home run ball, and the players after the cheering died down. Thomson’s home run has been employed as a plot device for shelves of fiction novels and TV shows, and hardly an autobiography of a person alive in 1951 could escape mentioning where they were on that day. […]
It seemed like some crazed pulp magazine story, but it was really happening. The co-pilot was no match for the crazed passenger who now hammered on his body with ham-sized fists until he slumped to the cabin floor. Now nothing stood between him and the pilot. […]
He was bombastic, flamboyant, a genius when sober, brilliant when he had one drink and a raving lunatic when he had too many. With the energy and recklessness of a Category 5 hurricane, Larry MacPhail got stuff done. […]
From semipro sandlots to the big league World Series, if your ball club needed a victory you put out the call for Win Ballou. For more than a quarter century this quirky relief pitcher from Appalachia consistently lived up to his name. […]
Roy “Tex” Sanner’s 1948 minor league season was one for the ages: winning 21 games while also taking home the Triple Crown for batting. So why did Tex Sanner not appear in a single major league game? […]
In 1938, a teenage shortstop straight out of a city church league emerged as the best shortstop in the minors, a prospect so highly regarded that the Boston Red Sox bought the entire Louisville Colonels franchise just so they could have him. […]
No other moment in sports history comes close to that single game in October, 1951. Countless non-fiction books have been written about the ’51 pennant race, the game, what happened to the home run ball, and the players after the cheering died down. Thomson’s home run has been employed as a plot device for shelves of fiction novels and TV shows, and hardly an autobiography of a person alive in 1951 could escape mentioning where they were on that day. […]
I’m very pleased to have Gary Bedingfield, World War II baseball expert and author of the new book “Baseball in World War II Hawaii,” as a Guest Author to introduce one of the ballplayers who made service baseball in 1940s Hawaii possible… […]
As one of the first Puerto Ricans to play in the minors, Luis Olmo knew he’d face many obstacles – but he had no idea they would include kidnapping, a Harlem safe house and contract hijinx by the most powerful men in the game. […]