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Jack Cuddy: The Man Who Didn’t Appreciate Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day

Jul 5, 2019

Sports writer Jack Cuddy passed away 54 years ago, but his work is finding a new audience this week. Specifically, people are reading a piece Cuddy wrote 80 years ago in advance of Lou Gehrig Appreciation Da...

The Odds Are Against Harper and the Phillies

Jeff J. Snider

Mar 5, 2019

Features, Opinions & Predictions, Statistics

A common refrain heard this offseason is that you just rarely see free agents as good and as young as Bryce Harper and Manny Machado. This is undeniably true. But when the subtext is "... so we have no idea how...

The Best Second-Best Seasons in Baseball History

Tom Dorsa

Jul 3, 2018

Baseball History, Major League Baseball

There are no perfect stats, but wins above replacement is about as close as they come. To properly measure how valuable a player has been to their ball club in relation to a replacement-level dude sitting in Tr...

The Best Nicknames in Baseball History

Cory Fallon

Feb 8, 2016

Features

Baseball has its own language. There are a lot of crazy and obscure things that ballplayers say to each other throughout the course of a game, including funny or hilarious nicknames. With over 18,000 men having...

Lou Gehrig: The Best Hitter of All Time

Cory Fallon

Jan 11, 2016

American League, American League East, Baseball History, Features, Major League Baseball, New York Yankees

Lou Gehrig is one of the best hitters to ever play the sport of baseball. The Iron Horse is most know for his streak of playing in 2,130 consecutive games, a feat thought unbreakable until Cal Ripken Jr. surpas...

All the World Series inside-the-park HR facts you need to know

Joshua Sadlock

Oct 27, 2015

Baseball History, Features, Major League Baseball, Postseason

Whether you want to call what Alcides Escobar of the Kansas City Royals did leading off the bottom of the first inning tonight an inside-the-park home run or an error on New York Mets centerfiedler Yoenis Cespe...

Is Mickey Cochrane still affecting the MVP vote?

Joshua Sadlock

Sep 11, 2015

Baseball History, Features, Headlines, Opinions & Predictions, Washington Nationals

Mickey Cochrane won the 1934 American League MVP award. That must have been news to Lou Gehrig. Cochrane, the Detroit Tigers catcher/manager and Hall of Famer, batted a respectable .320 with 74 runs scored and ...

Is Cal Ripken Jr.’s Record the Hardest to Break?

Josh Eastern

Sep 3, 2015

Baltimore Orioles, Baseball History, Features, Major League Baseball

Baseball has many records in many categories. Through the years, players have set them, then broken them, and then, they were set by someone else. At that point, you basically compile a list of players vying to...

Jackie Mitchell, The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig

Stevie Larson

Apr 2, 2015

Baseball History, Features, New York Yankees

In 1931, the New York Yankees were on their way back to New York after Spring Training when they stopped in Chattanooga, Tenn., for a couple of exhibition games against the Lookouts. The first game was schedule...

Calculating the modern-day contract worth of baseball’s legends

Steve Benko

Nov 22, 2014

Contract, Headlines, Opinions & Predictions

An article recently written by David Schoenfield of ESPN showed how the monetary value of the WAR statistic (Wins Above Replacement) is getting greater and greater by the year. It’s so valuable in fact, that at...

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