No-hitters are special, but to have two in one season is historic. During the 1944 season, Boston Braves right hander Jim Tobin became the second pitcher in the modern era to toss a pair of hitless affairs in the same year. Cincinnati’s Johnny Vander Meer was the first in 1938 with back-to-back performances. The knuckleballer […]
Category: Baseball History
There were a lot of changes happening in major league baseball during the 1970s. Arbitration was a word that was unfamiliar in a baseball sense back then, however, in 1974 that changed. The name of Dick Woodson may not be well known today, but he became the first player to win a salary arbitration case […]
Replacing a Hall of Fame player isn’t an easy task, but that is exactly what Richie Zisk did in his first major league game for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates had just scored six times in the bottom of the seventh to lead Chicago by 10 runs in a contest on their way to a […]
Happy birthday! Two of my childhood favorites are celebrating their birth today. Hank Aaron was born in 1934, while Roger Staubach came into the world in 1942. Neither one of these icons played for my favorite teams, but growing up in the 1970s, it was pretty hard to not be a fan of the two […]
It seems like a long time ago for me, but at one point I was covering a minor league professional baseball team for my hometown newspaper, the Palladium-Item in Richmond, Indiana. The Richmond Roosters were in existence for 11 seasons from 1995-2005. It was a fun time to follow the team through a pair of […]
Jim Gilliam provided the big hit as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat Baltimore 3-2 to claim the championship of the Strat-O-Matic 1959 Tournament presented by Press Room Pass. With Los Angeles down 2-1 in the bottom of the eighth, Gilliam smacked a two-run homer off Hoyt Wilhelm to give the Dodgers their first lead of […]
The heavily favored Los Angeles Dodgers needed a big hit in the 10th inning to survive a 4-2 battle with the Chicago Cubs in the semifinals of the Strat-O-Matic 1959 Tournament presented by Press Room Pass. Gil Hodges blasted a two-run walk-off homer in the 10th inning to send the Dodgers to the championship game […]
Baltimore’s Al Pilarcik drove in two runs as the Orioles defeated the Chicago White Sox 4-2 in the semifinals of the Strat-O-Matic 1959 Tournament presented by Press Room Pass. With the victory, the Orioles will travel to the winner of the top-seeded Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs game for the title contest. Pilarcik […]
The Chicago Cubs blasted four home runs on their way to a 9-2 win in Cleveland during the second round of the Strat-O-Matic 1959 Tournament presented by Press Room Pass. The biggest homer of the contest was a grand slam by Walt Moryn in the third inning that put the Cubs on top 6-0 and […]
Three big innings made the difference for Los Angeles as the Dodgers defeated the Boston Red Sox 11-3 in the second round of the Strat-O-Matic 1959 Tournament presented by Press Room Pass. After Jackie Jensen gave the Red Sox an early lead with a solo homer in the second inning, the Dodgers went to work […]