Twice in 2002 – in an 11-day stretch –the then-Anaheim Angels…
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The California Angels’ best player of 1979, Don Baylor, came…
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The SABR Games Project has reached a milestone with the publication…
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Illinois native Del Howard wasn’t as well-known as Hall of…
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After finishing second in the National League East in 1984 and…
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Roger Kahn’s 1972 classic, The Boys of Summer, a nostalgic…
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Hank Aaron quietly and unassumingly approached another significant…
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When Mel Ott smacked his 500th career home run, it was the latest…
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Forty-one minor leagues operated in the United States in 1939.…
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A Sunday crowd of 19,950 — overflowing into fair territory…
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