Catch ‘Em If You (Mc)Cann
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. For the rest of the calendar year, Connections will be looking at some of […]
Connections
During the baseball season, every day’s worth of games – and all of the box scores that tell the storylines of those games – connects to the past. In this, the past not only comes alive but also shapes and gives volume to the present. “Connections” celebrates the history of the game through the prism of the present – and vice versa – to offer an illuminating and entertaining narrative that weaves together the numbers and stories behind them.
Out With A Bang
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. For the rest of the calendar year, Connections will be looking at some of […]
Andy For The Win
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. For the rest of the calendar year, Connections will be looking at some of […]
Starts & Stops
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. For the rest of the calendar year, Connections will be looking at some of […]
Bobby & Tony
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. For the rest of the calendar year, Connections will be looking at some of […]
Puff
In the early efforts to build and grow a roster of baseball’s immortals, third basemen were notably absent from the […]
(W)right There
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. For the rest of the calendar year, Connections will be looking at some of […]
King For Many a Day
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. For the rest of the calendar year, Connections will be looking at some of […]
The Center Attraction
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. For the rest of the calendar year, Connections will be looking at some of […]
A Nearly Perfect Mark
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. For the rest of the calendar year, Connections will be looking at some of […]
The 70-70 Club
When he was all done menacing pitchers, Ty Cobb was the all-time leader in hits and runs, total bases, extra-base […]
Freeman’s Hall to Fame
On October 27, 1991, before more than 55,000 fans in the Metrodome and another 50-plus million enthralled by their televisions, […]
Fall’s Classic
Later today, before Jack Flaherty delivers the first salvo of the 120th Fall Classic, presumptive NL MVP Shohei Ohtani will […]
Joy
Fernando Valenzuela made only one World Series appearance in his career: a complete game in Game 3 of the 1981 […]
The VIP Entrance, Part 2
See Here for Part 1 On the morning of October 3, 2000, the set of batters who could […]
The VIP Entrance, Part 1
The 2024 postseason has been a canvas calling to the artists who hold a bat in their hands, an invitation […]
First Chair
It’s Saturday, October 12 – Game 5 of the ALDS pitting Detroit against Cleveland – and the Tigers have just […]
Mound Majesty
Collectively, the 20 most recent postseasons (2005-2024) have produced 85 examples of a starting pitcher finishing his work with at […]
My Favorite Things
There’s something extra special about a postseason home run: a big blast on the biggest of stages. Mazeroski and Carter […]
Soto Salute
On August 11 this year during a Sunday afternoon in the Bronx, Yankees outfielder Juan Soto clubbed his 29th and […]