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
Welcome to the Dugout
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
Gene Alley - Dead End Alley!
Gene Stephens - One Inning Wonder
Bobby Richardson - Idol Worship - New York Yankees
Jim Gentile - Diamond Jim Was A Gem!
Walter Johnson and Christy Mathewson
Willie Stargell Dies At 61
Eddie Fisher
Cecil Travis
Johnny Grubb
Max Alvis - Maximum Overdrive!
Harry Perkowski - Diamond In The Rough!
Warren Spahn Award
Stan Lopata - Former Phillies Catcher
Where Have You Gone Fred Beene?
Tom "Wimpy" Paciorek - Seattle Mariners And Chicago White Sox Player
Gus Zernial - Philadelphia Athletics
Frank Thomas - "The Original"
Harry Brecheen Dead At 89
Dennis Bennett - Against The Odds
"Beeney!" - Fred Beene, Former Major League Baseball Pitcher
Jackson Richard Newville
Warren Spahn
Bob "Beetle" Bailey - Montreal Expos slugger
Fergie Jenkins
Stories & Lists
Paul Waner's Statistics
Rookies of the Year
Oklahoma All-Stars - Baseball's Best
Tri City Baseball Park
Top 10 Offensive Performers
Baseball's Top 10 Missing Links
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