Warren Spahn Archives - Baseball Essential

Thoughts and facts about the last NL Champion from Boston

Nov 13, 2015

Atlanta Braves, Baseball History, Cleveland Indians, Major League Baseball

On October 11, 1948 -- exactly 31 years and one day before I was brought into this world -- the Cleveland Indians won their last World Series championship. The Indians had previously won the World Series in 192...

Kershaw and Greinke and a Bum Rap for Anderson

Jeff J. Snider

Aug 14, 2015

Features, Headlines, Los Angeles Dodgers, Opinions & Predictions

Over at NBC's Hardball Talk, my friend Craig Calcaterra had a fun little game with his readers and Twitter followers to come up with the best rhyming insult to describe the Los Angeles Dodgers' pitching rotatio...

A Look Inside The Mind Of An Atlanta Braves Fan: A Terrifying Prospect

Gabriel Bogart

Jul 29, 2015

Atlanta Braves, Baseball History, Features, National League East, Opinions & Predictions

About a month ago, I interviewed a friend of mine who is a Baltimore Orioles fan. My hopes are to make this a series of articles, that, with a touch of humor and levity, can illuminate some of the similarities ...

Unlikely No-Hitters and the Pitchers Who Threw Them

Jeff J. Snider

Mar 23, 2015

Baseball History, Features

Last week, a conversation with a friend spurred an investigation into the Most Unlikely Three-Homer Game Ever. A conversation about that piece with a different friend got me wondering which pitcher had thrown t...

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Thoughts and facts about the last NL Champion from Boston

Kershaw and Greinke and a Bum Rap for Anderson

A Look Inside The Mind Of An Atlanta Braves Fan: A Terrifying Prospect

Unlikely No-Hitters and the Pitchers Who Threw Them