The off-season for Red Sox starts – news and notes
This will be one of the most active and important off-seasons in recent history for the Boston Red Sox. There will be a new manager. Likely, most of the coaching staff will be revamped. The team...
View ArticleDon Larsen perfect game on This Day in Baseball
October 8, 1956 - Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitched the only perfect game in World Series history for a 2 - 0 triumph over the Brooklyn Dodgers. Sal Maglie, the opposing pitcher, gave up five...
View ArticleJeffrey Maier steals homerun ball
October 9, 1996 - Bernie Williams hit a home run in the 11th inning to give the New York Yankees a 5 - 4 victory over Baltimore in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series. The Yankees were...
View ArticleWild Cards Get Some Respect
When the St Louis Cardinals secured that second Wild Card spot in the National League, most baseball "experts" gave them little chance to last more than one game into the postseason. After all, they...
View ArticleAny One Watching
"QUESTION" - "can you name me baseball's highest-ever, TV rated, World Series Game?" ( Answer at the bottom - don't look )....... Its not the first 2 Games of this year's World Series between the...
View ArticleEight Years ago the Boston Red Sox wiped away 86 years of pain
The Red Sox hosted the St. Louis Cardinals for the first two games of the 2004 World Series, because the American League team had won the All-Star Game in July. The Sox had come back from Yankee...
View ArticleWrong Field of Dreams
Former Major League catcher Carlton Fisk may have been looking for Kevin Costner's "cornfield" in "Field of Dreams" - instead, he ended up drunk, and arrested for DUI in the center of a "cornfield" in...
View ArticleCrazy Collectables
Baseball Cards, uniforms and more Crazy Baseball Collectables View more lists from The Baseball Page
View ArticleTop Shortstops
Ranking the Shortstops The 1990's and early 2000's were the time of the shortstops. No longer were they just slick fielders. They became middle of the order hitters and MVP's, Alex Rodriquez, Derek...
View ArticleTop Centerfielders
Ranking the Center Fielders Joe DiMaggio made playing center field for the New York Yankees cool. He was graceful and he was a winner (10 pennants in 13 seasons), and helped establish the Yankee...
View ArticleBobby Bragan and Lee Hadley
June 8, 1941. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia. Bobby Bragan and Lee Hadley
View ArticleBarry THANK’S for making me rich
Barry Bonds returns to baseball. First time since 2007.... Bonds returning to baseball at the invitation of the San Francisco Giants. He'll be a hitting instructor at the Giants Scottsdale, Arizona...
View ArticleFISK CHANGES SOX
March, 18 This Day in Baseball 1985 On March 18, 1985, Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Hall of Famers Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, who had been banned from baseball for their ties with...
View ArticleFamily DNA Gift or Curse?
"It's in their DNA!" - that's what people say when we follow in Dad's footsteps........ After writing about sport stars who had son's that flopped in sports, I was reminded by an ex-broadcasting pal...
View ArticleMLB News and Notes: MLB drug policy will bar PED users from playoffs / Tigers...
MLB will be implementing longer suspensions for players who test positive for PEDs. (Rich Schultz/Getty Images) (PhatzRadio / AP) — According to an Associated Press report, Major League Baseball...
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