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 fourth member of 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 third member of the […]
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 […]
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 Philadelphia Phillies at the New York Giants. This game was 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 second member of the […]
The top performances in Major League Baseball this week were by Kendrys Morales of the Kansas City Royals and Jacob deGrom of the New York Mets. Morales led the Royals to a 5-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on May 22. Morales was had three hits and five RBI in Kaufman Stadium. The Kansas […]
Let there be light. Although there had been games played at night before, it was 80 years ago when the first night contest in the Major Leagues occurred at Crosley Field in Cincinnati on May 24, 1935. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, pushed a button at the White House and […]
There have been only 15 unassisted triple plays in the Major Leagues since 1900 with the Cleveland franchise involved in six of the solo efforts. Neal Ball had the first in the modern era on July 19, 1909, while playing shortstop for the Cleveland Naps against the Boston Red Sox. Ball began his his time […]
Everyone loves a trophy. In 1960, Topps created an All-Rookie Team from the prior season 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 […]
Fred Tenney missed one game for the New York Giants in 1908. At 36, the first baseman was nearing the end of his 17-year career when he was part of an eight-player deal that had him going to the Giants prior to the 1908 season. For the Giants in 1908, Tenney was at the top […]