With Justin Verlander’s unanimous selection as the AL Cy Young Award winner, it seems like a good time to revisit an article written on Aug. 3 exploring how dominant Verlander had been at the start of games. On July 31, Verlander took a no-hit bid into the eighth inning, marking the third time he had […]

Today is a golden anniversary in the world of baseball, for 50 years ago today, the Mets unveiled a logo that has been with them virtually unchanged ever since. The birthday logo. It’s a pretty logo, but almost all the elements have some meaning to it. There’s a bridge in the foreground that’s supposed to […]

Most of our baseball card mysteries deal with questions of “who” and “when.” As diehard fans, we want to know the names of all the players shown on the card. We also want to know when the card’s picture was taken—and where. This one is different. I know that this indeed is Glenn Hubbard, coming […]

30,000 days ago today, baseball had one of its tragedies, as Yankee manager Miller Huggins died. It happened on Sept. 25, 1929 as the regular season came to an end. The Yankees were in second place, but there was no pennant race as Connie Mack’s A’s were cruising to their first pennant in 15 years. […]

Over the weekend, former Expos/Twins pitcher Charlie Lea died at the rather young age of 54. This is jolting news, largely because the former Expos hurler was so young. It’s extra jolting on a personal note. For me, Lea was the first young pitcher I can remember who flamed out. Oh, technically there were others, […]

Twenty-five years ago today, on Nov. 14, 1986, a big and important change happened to the New York Mets—they got new owners. Sort of. Perhaps it would be better to say the existing ownership group reshuffled itself. Doubleday & Co. sold its share of the Mets for $80.75 million to Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon. […]

The Hardball Times Annual is, well, an annual event around here. I’m happy to say that this year’s event arrived at ACTA’s offices yesterday. If you ordered a copy from ACTA, as described in this article, you will receive it early next week. If you ordered from Amazon or some such silly place, you’ll have […]

10,000 days ago, baseball witnessed one of its worst starting pitching performances of all-time. It isn’t among the worst Game Scores ever. No record number of walks or hits were allowed. No, a much more specific record was set on that day, and hasn’t been worsted since (though it has been tied). On June 25, […]

Eighty years ago today, one of the most famous and successful managers in baseball history was born: Whitey Herzog. In other words, even though he’s long retired and already enshrined in Cooperstown, Herzog is actually a tad younger than Jack McKeon, who managed the Florida Marlins much of this year. Sure, but McKeon is the […]

Ten years ago, Topps included a terrific subset within its regular issue of cards: a series of “Golden Moments” celebrating some of the most iconic occurrences in the game’s history. One of those cards featured a moment that no Yankee fan over the age of 40 will ever forget. On an October afternoon in 1978, […]