Masanori Murakami (Trading Card DB)

Masanori Murakami

Long ago, baseball crossed the Pacific Ocean from the U.S. to…
Jim Ollom (Trading Card DB)

Jim Ollom

Jim Ollom was in his first big-league spring training camp as…
Sandy Koufax, edited by Marc Z. Aaron, Bill Nowlin, Glen Sparks

SABR Digital Library: Sandy Koufax

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Bob Cooney

Bob Cooney

Bob Cooney pitched 110⅓ innings during a major-league career…
Fred Applegate

Fred Applegate

Frederick Romaine Applegate, who won one of three decisions pitching…
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Drake Britton

Left-hander Drake Britton had one win and one loss in his time…
Ike Butler

Ike Butler

Ike Butler is a one-year major-league baseball anecdote – a…
Ed Cole

Ed Cole

After spring training tryouts with the Philadelphia Athletics…
Fred Cambria

Fred Cambria

Although there are many hard-luck cases in the annals of baseball…
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Fred Besana

A wild southpaw, Fred Besana spent the first month of the 1956…
Jim Clinton

Jim Clinton

Nineteenth-century journeyman Jim Clinton logged 400-plus games…
Phillippe Aumont

Phillippe Aumont

Phillippe Aumont pitched in 46 big-league games over the course…
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Scott Brown

If it weren’t for two relatively rare events, Cincinnati Reds…
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John Baker

The Chicago Cubs have a long history of famous games. There was…
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Trading Card DB)

March 28, 1970: East-West Major League Baseball Classic honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a conclave of civil rights advocates…
Ed Durham (Trading Card DB)

September 12, 1931: Fenway Park pigeons play a role in 1-0 Red Sox win in 13 innings

In mid-September of 1931, the Philadelphia Athletics were running…

September 2, 1968: Bob Gibson tosses 10-inning shutout for 20th win, lowers ERA to 0.99

The high-powered Cincinnati Reds “collided head-on with [an]…
Bill Butler (Trading Card DB)

May 7, 1976: Tacoma beats Hawaii with forfeit over footwear

Battles on the field and in the standings between the Hawaii…
Rick Behenna (Trading Card DB)

August 29, 1980: No-hitter caps nightmarish season for Rocky Mount Pines

It was the best of teams, it was the worst of teams. On August…
David Palmer (Trading Card DB)

May 12, 1985: David Palmer and Jeff Reardon toss Expos’ fourth consecutive shutout

The Atlanta Braves’ offense wasn’t exactly feeble in the…
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