Everyone loves a trophy. In 1960, Topps created an All-Rookie Team and the baseball cards of outstanding young players had trophies added to their pictures. There were a pair of National Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees on the squad 40 years ago along with several all-stars and most valuable players. The seventh member of the […]
The top performances in Major League Baseball this week were by Lance McCullers of the Houston Astros and Sonny Gray of the Oakland A’s. In just his fourth big league start since his call up from Double-A Corpus Christi last month, McCullers tossed his first complete game for the Astros in a 3-1 win over […]
With the Cincinnati Reds hosting the Major League All-Star Game this summer on July 14, it will be the fifth time the history of the organization the best players will converge near the Ohio River. The mid-summer classic was in Cincinnati for the first time in 1938. Crosley Field was also the site for the […]
Everyone loves a trophy. In 1960, Topps created an All-Rookie Team and the baseball cards of outstanding young players had trophies added to their pictures. There were a pair of National Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees on the squad 40 years ago along with several all-stars and most valuable players. The sixth member of the […]
Strat-o-Matic is a baseball simulation that began as a cards and dice game in the early 1960s before entering the computer age. These featured games on Shoestring Catches are part of season replays or tournaments played with cards and dice. Today’s game matches the two teams, Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates, from the National […]
Baseball cards in some form have been around for over a century. They’ve been in my house for over 40 years. I remember sitting in the front yard as a child under a tree sorting them by teams. My grandfather and I even built a big wooden box to store them under my bed. It […]
Everyone loves a trophy. In 1960, Topps created an All-Rookie Team and the baseball cards of outstanding young players had trophies added to their pictures. There were a pair of National Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees on the squad 40 years ago along with several all-stars and most valuable players. The fifth member of the […]
The date was June 2, 1925. One day after pinch-hitting against Washington, Lou Gehrig was inserted into the lineup at first base 90 years ago for the New York Yankees. By 1939, he had played a major league record 2,130 straight games that would stand until Cal Ripken, Jr. passed the mark in 1995. The […]
The top performances in Major League Baseball this week were by Josh Donaldson of the Toronto Blue Jays and Dallas Keuchel of the Houston Astros. Donaldson capped a 10-9 victory by the Blue Jays over the Chicago White Sox with a three-run walk off homer in the ninth at the Rogers Centre on Tuesday, May […]
With the Cincinnati Reds hosting the Major League All-Star Game this summer on July 14, it will be the fifth time the history of the organization the best players will converge near the Ohio River. The mid-summer classic was in Cincinnati for the first time in 1938. Crosley Field was also the site for the […]