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Baseball Players Who Used the Heaviest Bats

Baseball Essential
Nov 9, 2021
Baseball History, Features
You’ll be surprised to learn about the celebrated baseball players who used the heaviest bats. These legends were never afraid to go with a heftier stick. If you’re looking to improve your swing, you’ll like...

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

Tom Gibbons
Jul 5, 2019
Baseball History, Major League Baseball
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
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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
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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
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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...
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