50 years ago today was a big day in the history of the St. Louis Cardinals. The team itself didn’t do anything of note. The season hadn’t started yet so, there was no game worth mentioning. There were no big trades, signings, or prominent players cut. The St. Louis Cardinals franchise was itself a bystander […]

One hundred years ago today was a big day in the history of the Dodgers. On that day, they took their first step toward getting their first real stadium. On March 4, 1912, they had a groundbreaking ceremony in Brooklyn for Ebbets Field. Prior to Ebbets, the Dodgers had a field, of course, but it […]

20,000 days ago, baseball saw one of its rarest sights—a walk-off home run. That, in and of itself isn’t so special. There are hundreds of those each year and have been several thousand of them across all baseball history. No, but the one that happened 20,000 days ago had something special going for it. The […]

10 years ago today, a very special injury occurred. Usually injuries are sad news—doubly so when it’s a prominent player. But what happened on March 1, 2002 inspired a round or two of jokes made at the expense of the injured player. Even now, a decade later, all I have to do is mention the […]

10,000 days ago, Hall of Fame first baseman George Kelly died. His claim to fame, as far as Hall of Famers go, is that he might be the worst player in Cooperstown. Bill James, in his Hall of Fame book The Politics of Glory, creates a stat to determine a player’s Hall of Fame credentials, […]

I can’t remember anyone calling him “Len Randle.” Yet, his 1978 Topps card lists him in just such a way, even though Topps had featured him as “Lenny” on some of his earlier cards. To me, that’s who’ll always be, Lenny. Whatever the case, I always liked Randle as a player. He was a fun, […]

No. Unfortunately, I have to explain that. A point that is under-reported can be summed up this way: Braun’s defense team provided the exact information about what happened to the sample from the time it was given to when it was tested. As defense teams do, they repeated the process. Yes, they took urine from […]

20,000 days ago was one of the great performances in the history of baseball phenoms. On that day, the Cubs saw their franchise record for strikeouts in a nine-inning game set by a kid who was still in his teens. On May 26, 1957, young Dick Drott, still five weeks shy of his 20th birthday, […]

Twenty-five years ago today was a sad day for baseball, especially Kansas City baseball. On Feb. 23, 1987, Royals manager Dick Howser resigned due to his losing battle with brain cancer. It was already known that he had brain cancer. In fact, Howser had to miss the entire second half of the 1986 season in […]

10,000 days ago was one of the most dramatic and heart-pounding games in baseball postseason history, and it featured one of the greatest clutch performances any player ever had in one game. It truly was one of the greatest games of the 1980s. Unless you’re a Cubs fans. Then it just plain sucked, and sucked, […]