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
Where Have You Gone Fred Beene?
Bobby Richardson - Idol Worship - New York Yankees
Mel Parnell - Boston Red Sox Southpaw - Finesse Inside Fenway
Walter Johnson and Christy Mathewson
Cecil Travis - Super Senator!
Bob "Beetle" Bailey - Montreal Expos slugger
Jackson Richard Newville
Walter Smith Baseball Photos
Randy Jones - Recipe For Success
Clete Boyer - Hot Corner Hero - New York Yankees
Max Alvis - Maximum Overdrive!
Johnny Romano - Sweet Honey!
Stu Miller - Relief Pitcher Extraordinaire!
Tom "Snake" Sturdivant - Former Yankees Pitcher
Randy "Handsome Ransom" Jackson - Brooklyn Dodgers
Warren Spahn Dies At 82
Warren Spahn Award
Jim Gentile - Diamond Jim Was A Gem!
Bobby Morgan - Brooklyn Dodgers
Gene Alley - Dead End Alley!
Harry Brecheen Dead At 89
Lloyd And Paul Waner
Tom Tresh - Yankees - 1962 AL Rookie of the Year
"Beeney!" - Fred Beene, Former Major League Baseball Pitcher
Stories & Lists
Nothin' But Braves!
Rick Newville's Field of Dreams
Ultimate Grand Slams!
Baseball Todd's Statistical Analyses And Archives
Old Pittsburg Pirates
Playing To Win!
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