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.
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Warren Spahn
Where Have You Gone Fred Beene?
Mel Parnell - Boston Red Sox Southpaw - Finesse Inside Fenway
Clete Boyer - Hot Corner Hero - New York Yankees
Fergie Jenkins
Ron Hansen - Tall Cool One!
Randy "Handsome Ransom" Jackson - Brooklyn Dodgers
Max Alvis - Maximum Overdrive!
Warren Spahn Award
Baseball Digest Magazine
Phil Bradley, Former Major Leaguer, Seattle Mariners, Missouri Tigers
Stan Lopata - Former Phillies Catcher
Eddie Fisher
Tom "Wimpy" Paciorek - Seattle Mariners And Chicago White Sox Player
Frank Thomas - "The Original"
Darrell Porter Dies At 50
Randy Jones - Recipe For Success
Lloyd And Paul Waner
Tom "Snake" Sturdivant - Former Yankees Pitcher
Gene Alley - Dead End Alley!
Jim Gentile - Diamond Jim Was A Gem!
Solly Hemus - Former Cardinal - A Rare Bird!
Willie Stargell Dies At 61
Roy Sievers - Slugging First Baseman
Stories & Lists
2006 RoughRiders T-Ball
Top 10 Baseball Characters
Baseball Todd's Statistical Analyses And Archives
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Baseball's All-Time Leaderboards
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