How the Triple Crown Became Baseball's Rarest Feat
Leading a league in batting average, home runs and runs batted in during the same season is the Triple Crown, and it is one of the hardest feats in baseball. It demands that a hitt
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The unofficial website for any and all baseball fans. Player tributes, baseball stories and record lists written by Todd Newville, who chased down the game's greats for interviews, autographs and grip-and-grin photos.
Player Tributes
Clete Boyer - Hot Corner Hero - New York Yankees
Walter Johnson and Christy Mathewson
Warren Spahn Dies At 82
Mel Parnell - Boston Red Sox Southpaw - Finesse Inside Fenway
Bob "Beetle" Bailey - Montreal Expos slugger
Randy Jones - Recipe For Success
Danny Walton - Dandy Danny!
Willie Stargell Dies At 61
Eddie Fisher
Baseball Digest Magazine
Gene Stephens - One Inning Wonder
Gene Alley - Dead End Alley!
Stu Miller - Relief Pitcher Extraordinaire!
Frank Thomas - "The Original"
Cecil Travis - Super Senator!
Ron Hansen - Tall Cool One!
Walter Smith Baseball Photos
Roy Sievers - Slugging First Baseman
Bobby Morgan - Brooklyn Dodgers
Gus Zernial - Philadelphia Athletics
Jim Gentile - Diamond Jim Was A Gem!
Tom Tresh - Yankees - 1962 AL Rookie of the Year
Cecil Travis
Max Alvis - Maximum Overdrive!
Stories & Lists
Reversal of Fortunes
Top Oklahoma Sooners In Pro Baseball
Top 10 Baseball Characters
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2001 Predictions
From the Dugout Blog
Warren Spahn and the Lost Art of the Complete Game
Warren Spahn won 363 games, the most by any left-hander in history, and he finished what he started. He threw 382 complete games and 63 shutouts, numbers that read like a misprint
The 500 Home Run Club, Explained
The 500 home run club is baseball's most famous power milestone. For decades, reaching 500 career home runs was treated as an automatic Hall of Fame credential, a sign that a hitte