#baseball-history

#baseball-history

Garret Anderson was a Hall of Fame-caliber major league baseball player who never made the Hall of Fame. Baseball is a numbers game, and GA didn't have enough of them.

The odds of hitting something with a one in six chance seven times in a row? One in 279,936. That's the absurdity of what the Red Sox are doing in these green uniforms!

As broadcaster Rick Rizzs declared we're going to count down from 51! a nod to Suzuki's jersey number, which was retired by the Seattle Mariners, the curtain covering the bronze statue was pulled down, and so, too, went the bat.

Trailing 2-0, New Hampshire scored its first eight runs of the second inning without giving up a hit in Tuesday's game in Portland, Maine. In all, the Fisher Cats posted 10 runs in the inning -- nine with two outs -- on just one hit and without the benefit of any errors.

Heyward put up nearly 20 fWAR in his five seasons as a Brave, matching his rookie season's 4.7 with another 4.7 in his final season pre-trade.

Times' getting short for that, at least as far as I'm concerned. Paul [McCartney] and Ringo [Starr] are in their eighties, too. So I got to hit the gas here, but there's only so much I could control. But the 2026 season also provides one last opportunity to honor his father, the man who introduced him to baseball but never got to see him reach the immense heights in broadcasting he achieved.

In 1901, the American League declared itself a competitor to the NL, jumping up from its minor league status (where it had been called the Western League). The two leagues agreed to play a World Series in 1903, and for the next 90-odd years the leagues served as heated rivals. The NL's dominance in the All-Star Game from 1963 to 1982 -- it won 19 of the 20 contests -- was offered as proof of its superiority, certainly by its players and fans.

1991 - The Braves fall to the Twins 4-3 in 11 innings as Kirby Puckett does it all for Minnesota. Puckett prevented two runs with a leaping catch against the plexiglass in left center in the third. He then gives the Twins the lead with a sacrifice fly in the fifth. The Braves tie the game back up, but Puckett ends it when he homers off Charlie Leibrandt on the first pitch of the 11th to send the series to a Game 7.

Yankee Elimination Day is finally here! With the Blue Jays defeating the Yankees in the ALDS last night, a wave of celebration and good spirits has washed over this lonely planet of ours. In light of the, uhh, not great manner in which the Red Sox were recently eliminated, the holiday is likely to prompt some bittersweet - and perhaps even reflective - emotions this year. But that doesn't mean it doesn't still have a lot to offer in terms of spirituality and fun.

Daniel Conrad has had a lot of time to think about his highs and lows as a baseball fan. There he was in Yankee Stadium on Oct. 1, 1961: The day Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's unbreakable record with his 61st home run. One year later he was seated within Manhattan's cavernous Polo Grounds, watching the New York Mets host the San Francisco Giants. The Mets lost 120 games that year and 111 more in '63, but they always won when Conrad was in attendance.

On Oct. 3, 1990, West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a reunified country. Also on this date: In 1944, during World War II, U.S. Army troops cracked the Siegfried Line north of Aachen, Germany. In 1951, the New York Giants captured the National League pennant by a score of 5-4 as Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer off Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers, which became known as the Shot Heard Round the World.

Today is Monday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2025. There are 93 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 29, 1954, Willie Mays of the New York Giants made a running, over-the-shoulder catch of a ball hit by Vic Wirtz of the Cleveland Indians in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series; The Catch would become one of the most famous plays in baseball history. Also on this date: In 1789, Congress officially established a regular army under the U.S. Constitution.

Full disclosure, the editors of the book, Attorneys in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Louis H. Schiff and Robert M. Jarvis, sent me a review copy, but I've been trying to get it from the library, and we'll be honest, I'll buy this book because it's going to sit in my office as a resource. How? We'll see but I keep a dictionary of etymology and the Dickson Baseball Dictionary on the desk too. You just never know.

1905 - Frank Smith of the Chicago White Sox pitched a no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers in a 15-0 victory in the second game of a doubleheader. The score is the most lopsided margin of victory for a no-hitter in AL history. 1912 - Smokey Joe Wood of the Red Sox, on his way to a 34-win season, beat Washington's Walter Johnson 1-0 at Boston. The victory was Wood's 14th consecutive, two shy of Johnson's AL record of 16 straight.