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
Mel Parnell - Boston Red Sox Southpaw - Finesse Inside Fenway
Tom Tresh and Mike Tresh
Walter Johnson and Christy Mathewson
Jim Gentile - Diamond Jim Was A Gem!
Lloyd And Paul Waner
Dennis Bennett - Against The Odds
Cecil Travis
Where Have You Gone Fred Beene?
Randy Jones - Recipe For Success
Roy Sievers - Slugging First Baseman
Bobby Richardson - Idol Worship - New York Yankees
Harry Brecheen Dead At 89
Johnny Romano - Sweet Honey!
Tom "Snake" Sturdivant - Former Yankees Pitcher
Willie Stargell Dies At 61
Randy "Handsome Ransom" Jackson - Brooklyn Dodgers
Warren Spahn Dies At 82
Eddie Fisher
Solly Hemus - Former Cardinal - A Rare Bird!
Max Alvis - Maximum Overdrive!
Oscar Gamble - Dream Weaver!
Frank Thomas - "The Original"
Fergie Jenkins
Warren Spahn Award
Stories & Lists
Moose, Minnie, Nellie, and Mickey!
Rick Newville - Olympian
Great Old Ballcards
"Give Me The Triple Combo!"
Lloyd Waner's Statistics
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