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
Johnny Romano - Sweet Honey!
Jim Gentile - Diamond Jim Was A Gem!
Darrell Porter Dies At 50
Mel Parnell - Boston Red Sox Southpaw - Finesse Inside Fenway
Where Have You Gone Fred Beene?
Harry Perkowski - Diamond In The Rough!
Max Alvis - Maximum Overdrive!
Harry Brecheen - Deceased Cardinals Pitcher - One Cool Cat
Tom Tresh and Mike Tresh
Warren Spahn
Bobby Richardson - Idol Worship - New York Yankees
Phil Bradley, Former Major Leaguer, Seattle Mariners, Missouri Tigers
Tom "Snake" Sturdivant - Former Yankees Pitcher
Jackson Richard Newville
Warren Spahn Award
Cecil Travis - Super Senator!
Stan Lopata - Former Phillies Catcher
Bob "Beetle" Bailey - Montreal Expos slugger
Warren Spahn Dies At 82
Cecil Travis
Gus Zernial - Philadelphia Athletics
Bobby Morgan - Brooklyn Dodgers
Walter Johnson and Christy Mathewson
Ron Hansen - Tall Cool One!
Stories & Lists
Baseball Todd's 2003 Predictions
Top 11 Players Not In The HOF
Rick Newville - Olympian
Great Old Ballcards
Randy Johnson - Spahn Award Winner
Making The Most Of It
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