That a population comprising, at most, about one second baseman in five should include both of the very best at the position is quite strange. But there it is.

We already had one presidential post, so why not another? Yesterday Newsday had a nice rundown of the highlights of presidential baseball trivia. My favorite tidbit: Grace Coolidge — Calvin’s First Lady — kept her own scorebook. If paintings are any guide, she was quite a looker too. If I had been born 100 years […]

On Jan. 21, 1972 Alan Benes was born. In his major league career, he would win 29 games, or 126 fewer than his older brother Andy. Richard returns to one of his favorite subjects, looking at the “other brother” of great pitching families.

Why is it that we see several times more stories about a guy who hasn’t played for nearly three seasons than we do about scores of guys who are playing right now? Who is Bernie Williams’ press agent? The guy must never sleep.

The left turns at the hot corner include quite a few of the position’s very best, and one in particular who’s never been recognized as such.

I’ve been known to stretch a metaphor beyond its breaking point, but this is downright bizarre. I got through the Civil War — well, at least I think it was the Civil War — before throwing in the towel. Quick: someone with a greater attention span than mine — tell me if they included the […]

On Jan. 16, 1980 Albert Pujols was born. The greatness of “Prince Albert” is in no dispute—his second MVP attesting to the fact—but this week Richard looks back to see just how Pujols compares to great hitters of the past.

How the Cubs title drought since 1908 was more likely than the Expos/Nationals missing the playoffs for 27 years, and a bunch of math in between.

Let’s meet the best of the southpaw-swinging backstop minority.

I missed this when it ran last week — probably because I don’t get the MLB Network and thus ignored much of the discussion of it out of spite — but King Kaufman had some really interesting observations about the Don Larsen game and hitting in the 1950s: The biggest difference I noticed was the […]