Editor’s note: The 27 * 61 Yankees Replay games are being played with Strat-o-Matic cards and dice. The designated hitter will not be used for any games. Injuries will only be used during the game when they occur. Mickey Mantle smashed a pair of homers to lead the 1961 New York Yankees to a 4-2 […]
Category: 1970s Baseball History
Editor’s note: The 27 * 61 Yankees Replay games are being played with Strat-o-Matic cards and dice. The designated hitter will not be used for any games. Injuries will only be used during the game when they occur. The 1927 New York Yankees can produce a lot of runs when its needed. With 16 hits, […]
Editor’s note: The 27 * 61 Yankees Replay games are being played with Strat-o-Matic cards and dice. The designated hitter will not be used for any games. Injuries will only be used during the game when they occur. Pitching may have dominated the day at Yankee Stadium, but it was a hitter who decided the […]
Editor’s note: The 27 * 61 Yankees Replay games are being played with Strat-o-Matic cards and dice. The designated hitter will not be used for any games. Injuries will only be used during the game when they occur. The 1927 New York Yankees scored the winning runs in the bottom of the sixth on the […]
Any player can have a bad day. Even a future member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Brooks Robinson won 16 Gold Gloves during his 23-year career with the Baltimore Orioles from spanned from 1955-77. In 1971, Brooks needed a pick me up from teammate Frank Robinson and he got it on July 28 in […]
It’s always fun listening to popular radio and television baseball announcer Duane Kuiper on the game broadcasts for San Francisco Giants. Kuiper was doing the TV broadcast when Barry Bonds hit his 756th home run in 2007, which is a bit ironic since the former second baseman only hit one long ball in his big […]
There’s an old superstition that “Good Things Come in Threes.” Ironically, Johnny Bench has experienced that three times in the home run department. Back in 1970, Bench hit three homers in a game for the first time in his career on July 26. He drove in seven runs that day as the Reds beat the […]
Growing up in the 1970s as a Cincinnati Reds fan was a wonderful time. It was like going to your grandmother’s house and being spoiled with whatever you wanted. However, when your favorite players were traded or went to another team and had success, it was like that family member who enjoyed stirring up trouble […]
Art Kusnyer was a baseball lifer. Kusnyer was longtime member of Tony La Russa‘s coaching staff when the Oakland A’s won the World Series in 1989. Beginning his career in 1966 as a 37th round draft pick by the Chicago White Sox. He made his major league debut in 1970 by appearing in four games. […]
One of the things that makes baseball special is family. Families are always in the stands, but there have been several times when brothers, fathers and sons have been on the diamond together. Tommie Aaron is one part of an answer to an old trivia question. What brothers have combined for the most lifetime home […]