Archive for the 'History' Category

Graphs, more graphs and the anger of Felipe Alou

Dennis ranks the best postseason series of all time.

A look back at the career of a great player who will live in his son’s shadow … and we’re not talking Ken Griffey Sr.

In the second installment, Steve compares and contrasts all of the most prominent third-base-primary major leaguers since Jimmy Collins, including the Ken Keltner Line, as well as whoever it was who played third base for, you know, Pittsburgh in 1960.

Let’s go down to the crossroads. Fall down on our knees. And consider who treads upon the well-traveled dirt of The Hot Corner.

Was “Shoeless” Joe corrupted before decomposition set in?

Doug Eddings, Ozzie Guillen, and the canonical story of “but for this.”

Every once in a while, it’s important to forget all the rest of that stuff for a minute, and remind ourselves what a terrific baseball player Pete Rose was.

Steve explores one of the most unusual and unpredictable team performances in major league history. Board up those windows!

Steve concludes his examination of batting history, as viewed through the conversion of team and league stats into an individualized form.