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 […]
By the time he was able to play ball under some World Series bunting, Ted Kluszewski was a few weeks past his 35th birthday, nearing the end of his career, playing for his third team in as many years. He’d make his initial stride across the biggest stage one to […]
As if he hadn’t already generated enough thrills during his mania-inducing season, Fernando Valenzuela took the Dodger Stadium hill on October 10, 1981 with his club down 2-1 in the best-of-five opening series, one more loss to the Astros away from having the rest of the year off. So the […]
Rickey Henderson’s 25-year journey across the big leagues saw him don uniforms for nine different franchises, a voyage that ultimately produced 297 longballs to pair with his 1,406 thefts. Many of the members of the 250-homer, 250-steal club experienced a fairly nomadic existence, with 10 of them playing for at […]
Scooping up all the seasons from 1893 through 2024 and then sifting through to keep only the most productive offensive campaigns from catchers, one would be left with just 68 lines that were styled in the form of at least 100 games behind the plate and an OPS of at […]
The 1950 Red Sox scored runs at a volume almost unsurpassed in the World Series era, touching the plate 1,027 times (only three Yankees clubs from the 1930s made it home more often). The pinnacle of that season at the midpoint of the 20th century came on June 8, when […]