Although Mickey Rutner’s entire major league career consisted of only 12 games for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1947, his experience lives on in one of the finest works of baseball fiction, Eliot Asinof’s “Man on Spikes.” […]

Although Mickey Rutner’s entire major league career consisted of only 12 games for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1947, his experience lives on in one of the finest works of baseball fiction, Eliot Asinof’s “Man on Spikes.” […]
In the first Guest Author piece on the new website, Dr. Charles H. Brown ruminates on his favorite ballplayer and the trials and tribulations of sticking by his childhood hero long after the cheering stopped. […]