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
Dennis Bennett - Against The Odds
Warren Spahn Award
Johnny Grubb
"Beeney!" - Fred Beene, Former Major League Baseball Pitcher
Danny Walton - Dandy Danny!
Tom Tresh - Yankees - 1962 AL Rookie of the Year
Randy Jones - Recipe For Success
Bobby Morgan - Brooklyn Dodgers
Harry Brecheen - Deceased Cardinals Pitcher - One Cool Cat
Bobby Richardson - Idol Worship - New York Yankees
Randy "Handsome Ransom" Jackson - Brooklyn Dodgers
Bob "Beetle" Bailey - Montreal Expos slugger
Harry Perkowski - Diamond In The Rough!
Roy Sievers - Slugging First Baseman
Max Alvis - Maximum Overdrive!
Darrell Porter Dies At 50
Cecil Travis
Tom Tresh and Mike Tresh
Harry Brecheen Dead At 89
Jim Gentile - Diamond Jim Was A Gem!
Fergie Jenkins
Oscar Gamble - Dream Weaver!
Jackson Richard Newville
Ron Hansen - Tall Cool One!
Stories & Lists
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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