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 under a tree sorting them by teams. My grandfather and I built a big wooden box to store them under my bed. It seemed to be a […]
Category: 1970s Baseball History
The statue that has been outside of the last two baseball stadiums in St. Louis has the inscription “Here Stands Baseball’s Perfect Warrior.” He was the man. Despite several players who put together National Baseball Hall of Fame careers with the Cardinals, Stan Musial still represents baseball in St. Louis. Musial was a three-time National […]
Herb Washington was a track star. In his days at Michigan State in the early 1970s, Washington was a NCAA and Big Ten champion sprinter. Just 22 years old in 1974, Washington went from the track to the baseball diamond and eventually to the World Series. Washington wasn’t a baseball player and yet Oakland A’s […]
Thinking about Lou Brock‘s recent medical situation reminds us of how fragile we all really are. Brock had part one of his legs amputated because of complications from diabetes. Until National Baseball Hall of Fame member Rickey Henderson came along, Brock was the sport’s best base-stealer. When he retired after the 1979 season, Brock was […]
When David Wright knocked in four runs during game three of the 2015 World Series, it brought back memories of a name in the history of the New York Mets. Wright’s four RBI was the most by a Mets player since Rusty Staub had five in a contest. It was the fourth contest 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 1969 New York Mets and the 1976 Kansas City Royals. With […]
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 under a tree sorting them by teams. My grandfather and I built a big wooden box to store them under my bed. It seemed to be a […]
As the New York Mets and Kansas City Royals prepare to battle in this year’s World Series, let’s take a look where each franchise began. The Mets were born in the 1962 season, while the Royals came along in 1969. The first players for each team were selected during an expansion draft. New York picked […]
October 9 is a pretty important day in the baseball career of Dave McNally. After not making it out of the third inning of as the game one starter for the Baltimore Orioles in the 1966 World Series, McNally responded in his next effort. McNally was the winning pitcher in the clinching contest as the […]
One and done. With the current post-season set up for Major League Baseball, the one-game playoffs have become a regular occurrence. However, through out most of baseball history it was very rare and didn’t happen for the first time until the 1940s. The first tie between two teams after the regular season ended was in […]