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
Gene Stephens - One Inning Wonder
Tom Tresh - Yankees - 1962 AL Rookie of the Year
Frank Thomas - "The Original"
Gene Alley - Dead End Alley!
Dennis Bennett - Against The Odds
Tom Tresh and Mike Tresh
Bob "Beetle" Bailey - Montreal Expos slugger
Danny Walton - Dandy Danny!
Bobby Richardson - Idol Worship - New York Yankees
"Beeney!" - Fred Beene, Former Major League Baseball Pitcher
Fergie Jenkins
Phil Bradley, Former Major Leaguer, Seattle Mariners, Missouri Tigers
Mel Parnell - Boston Red Sox Southpaw - Finesse Inside Fenway
Darrell Porter Dies At 50
Solly Hemus - Former Cardinal - A Rare Bird!
Walter Johnson and Christy Mathewson
Lloyd And Paul Waner
Warren Spahn
Cecil Travis - Super Senator!
Harry Perkowski - Diamond In The Rough!
Johnny Grubb
Harry Brecheen - Deceased Cardinals Pitcher - One Cool Cat
Baseball Digest Magazine
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Stories & Lists
Playing To Win!
Moose, Minnie, Nellie, and Mickey!
1933 American League All-Star Team
Baseball Todd's 2002 Predictions
Ed Vosberg
Pitching Brothers - Same Team
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