If you are a baseball fan, it’s likely that you remember your first major league game. I had just turned 10 years old in 1973 and as part of my birthday present my parents arranged for me to take a trip to a Cincinnati Reds game with the local Boy’s Club. The Reds would be […]
Category: History
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 […]
Editor’s note: The value of sports cards is subjective. The reality is that they are worth whatever price someone is willing pay. Collecting cards has never been about money or investments because that seems to remove some of the enjoyment of the hobby. Recently, a couple of friends gave me some baseball and football cards […]
Editor’s note: The value of sports cards is subjective. The reality is that they are worth whatever price someone is willing pay. Collecting cards has never been about money or investments because that seems to remove some of the enjoyment of the hobby. Recently, a couple of friends gave me some baseball and football cards […]
Editor’s note: The value of sports cards is very subjective. The reality is that they are worth whatever price someone is willing pay. Collecting cards has never been about money or investments because that seems to remove some of the enjoyment of the hobby. Recently, a couple of friends gave me some baseball and football […]
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 […]
In his third season, Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jared Goff is leading his team into Super Bowl LIII against the New England Patriots with more experience than the other signal callers in his team’s history, who helped the team win National Football League titles. Goff is in his second year as a starter, but when […]
No-hitters have never been easy in real life or any type of simulation. After years of playing Strat-O-Matic, a baseball simulation game that began as a cards and dice game in the early 1960s, there is finally a no-hitter in my scorebook. During my time with this game, I’ve recorded 10 one-hitters. Two of them […]
The American Football League was around for 10 seasons before it merged with the National Football League in 1970. As the leagues came together, so did the all-time records. One of the marks established in the final year of the AFL was touchdown passes in a half. Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers tied […]