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It seems, it feels remarkable that the final contest of the 2025 Fall Classic echoes so many of the beats that were produced in the final World Series game in 1912. 113 years ago. The remarkable-ness comes from opposite poles. How in the world can two events separated by so […]
Three times in his career, Whitey Ford accepted the starting assignment in a Game 6 with his Yankees facing the dire commandment – win or go away. The first time this not so impossible mission presented itself, Ford got to stand atop his home mound of dirt, and, perhaps feeling […]
During the 1973 postseason, Mets right-hander Tom Seaver fanned 13 Reds in the first game of the NLCS and then sat down a dozen Athletics in the third game of the Fall Classic. Exceptional strikeout tallies for the time, but probably not that surprising. After all, the 28-year-old had already […]
There’s exhilarating footage of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig taking batting practice before the 1927 World Series – a kind of perfect encapsulation of the knockout combination these two provided. Watching one finish and the other begin, there is a sense and acknowledgment of the devastation about to be wrought: […]
Not long ago, during one of my son’s club games, I noticed that the back of the opposing starter’s jersey seemingly featured the name “Musial.” I approached the fence separating the bleachers from the field and asked our first base coach if that was indeed the case. Not quite […]
For those who don’t live in the New York tri-state area or otherwise haven’t been paying attention to the Yankees, Anthony Volpe has emerged as the latest scapegoat for a fanbase that’s been nursing a steady burn over the team’s vanishing preeminence. Once celebrated as the heir apparent to […]
A quick run-through of recent Major League Baseball news reveals the degree to which the sport relies on the wow factor of its lightning-strewing arms. One MLB.com article from late June, recounting Shohei Ohtani’s third mound outing following his return from elbow surgery, came with the headline “Ohtani dials […]
On Christmas mornings in the Ott household in the early 1980s, it was a common occurrence for me to unwrap the obviously book-shaped gift and see some form of the baseball record book staring back at me. These volumes became my companion through the long winter months, and while […]
Today’s guest writer, James Potocki, spent 25 years creating content for Major League Baseball as a cinematographer, editor and producer. If you’ve been a baseball fan over that time, you might have seen some of his work – This Week in Baseball, Prime 9, The World Series Film and the documentary series, MLB […]
A brief history of the timeline connecting the dots between teams repeating as World Series champions begins in 1908, when the Cubs of Tinker, Evers and Chance (along with Steinfeldt and a quartet of pitchers) took down the Tigers in five games. Soon after, the Athletics (1910-1911), Red Sox (1915-1916) […]
By the time Ken Griffey, Jr.’s fourth MLB season was behind him, the Mariners’ center fielder may have had to build an addition onto whatever space had been erected to display the signifiers of excellence and prominence: three Gold Gloves; a Silver Slugger; three All-Star nods as a starter for […]
A ballplayer has all kinds of entry points that beckon for organization: age, league, experience, team affiliation, and – so integral to whatever sort of classifying is at hand – position and what real estate he occupies when batting. The greatest teenage seasons, the most productive debut or final seasons, […]
