Bruce Markusen writes about one of his favorite nicknames in this week’s posting from Cooperstown.

How well did the “Favorite Toy” predict which players would hit 500 homers?

What if Frankie hadn’t been quite so frantic in Cleveland?

There is something to be said about enjoying a random game that turns into something special.

Inspired by the five cycles in the books this season, a look at each team’s last brush with this rare hitting gem.

Anniversaries and exhibits have Bruce Markusen thinking about one of his favorite baseball cards in this week’s Cooperstown Confidential.

In these seasons, if you had been away for awhile, not much.

On July 31, 2004 Dave Roberts was traded to the Red Sox. Though he would play only 45 games in a Boston uniform, it is his one moment in the 2004 playoffs that is remembered, to the exclusion of the rest of his career. Richard looks at similar players.

As anyone who reads “And That Happened” on a regular basis knows, I’m a box score fetishist, and because of it, I’ve often thought of Henry Chadwick — the man credited as inventing the box score — as the feature’s patron saint. Except it’s not quite that clear that he did invent the box score. […]

Second verse, same as the first… only older.