As a teenager, Jim Bark would wait outside the visiting teams clubhouse at County Stadium in Milwaukee hoping to get an autograph from some of his favorite baseball players. The Racine, Wisconsin ...
Those 117 gentlemen should have joined Mariano Rivera as unanimous selections to the None of them did. If anything, I undercounted. I do allow for some honest difference of opinion. Nor am I including ...
Seeing the number featured in the ballpark with the rest of the retired numbers is cool and it's always an opportunity to ...
In 1958, Williams chaired the Committee to Combat Racial Injustice, which organized to defend two Black boys, ages 7 and 9, ...
He showed up in the same box scores as Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews, Warren Spahn ... Excellence Award for which he was honored at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Jayson has covered baseball for more ...
Baseball, however, hadn’t heard the last ... “I hit one that day, too, my 399th. Eddie Mathews, left, was managing the Atlanta Braves when he hooked back up with his old roommate, Bob Uecker ...
When it comes to the world of baseball, the great state of Texas has produced some of the greatest of all-time. From Hall of ...
Bob Uecker was a famously mediocre Major League hitter who discovered that he was much more comfortable at a microphone than home plate. And that was just the start of a second career in entertainment ...
Year-by-year inductees to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame ... 1978 — BBWAA: Eddie Mathews. VC: Addie Joss, Larry MacPhail. 1977 — BBWAA: Ernie Banks. VC: Al Lopez, Amos Rusie, Joe ...
BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; TGE: Today’s Game Era (1998-present) committee; VC: Elected by the Veterans Committee; NL: Elected by the Veterans Committee based on ...
BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America ... VC: Warren Giles, Hack Wilson. 1978 — BBWAA: Eddie Mathews. VC: Addie Joss, Larry MacPhail. 1977 — BBWAA: Ernie Banks.