Archive for the 'History' Category

What happens when Afrika Bambaataa meets Mark Buehrle? Only the Secret Society of Crafty Soft Tossers knows for sure.

A look at whether a healthy Ken Griffey Jr. would have out-homered Barry Bonds.

Oh, relax. Bonds’ record won’t end baseball as we know it.

Schoolboy Rowe and Hank Greenberg both played for Beaumont in the Texas League in 1932. Greenberg hit 39 home runs and drove in 131 runs and Rowe was 19-7 with a 2.34 ERA. Beaumont went 100-51.

Did you know that right-handed batters have to defend a bigger strike zone than lefties?

Lefty, righty, loosey, tighty, it’s time for wholes greater than sums of parts.

Look, the 1899 Spiders are the worst. No one can compete. But can you guess who came out as the worst team of the 20th century? Believe me, if I gave you five guesses, you still would not get it right.

… to help rewrite the history of MLB’s “steroid era”

On July 7, 1958, Glenn Hoffman was born. Why do we remember him? He is just one of the many brothers who found themselves watching as their siblings went on to greater glory.

Rather than sit around a bar stool debating who the worst teams ever are, let’s run 1000 computer sims of the game’s 28 worst clubs. First, to determine which teams go in the hopper.