The end was coming.
Such is the reality any time a 46-year-old…
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The New York Mets arrived at Wrigley Field in August 1986 with…
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The 1939 Boston Red Sox fell from first place to second on their…
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Midway through the 1927 baseball campaign, it appeared as if…
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Whenever pitcher Oliver Drake changed teams in 2018, his hometown…
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“What a happy world this would be if every one was accomplished…
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After winning the 1919 World Series, the Cincinnati Reds had…
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The final day of the 1892 baseball season in the nation’s capital…
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The Cincinnati Reds signed Ryan Joseph “Scooter” Gennett…
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Only the tail-end St. Louis club stood in the way of Bill Phillips’s…
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Owing to four rescheduled rainouts, the Terrapins and the Buf-Feds…
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Between games of the doubleheader at Buffalo’s Federal League…
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The Chicago Whales were in a three-way battle for the Federal…
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The Buffalo Buffeds1 were already 10 weeks into their first…
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Their home-field victory over the Pittsburgh Rebels in the opener…
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On a mid-August Sunday afternoon, the Baltimore Terrapins arrived…
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The Sunday game at Handlan’s Park1 on September 19, 1915, drew…
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Baseball card #186 in the 1967 Topps set seems in retrospect…
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The Cincinnati Reds (3-5) were visiting the Detroit Tigers (5-4)…
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In his first at-bat after three years of military service during…
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The SABR Bookshelf: Winter/Spring 2021
June 14, 1994: Charlie Hough’s last hurrah is a complete-game shutout for Marlins
August 19, 1969: Juan Marichal battles Mets in scoreless duel; Giants lose 1-0 in 14 innings
August 5, 1986: Jerry Mumphrey’s pinch-hit homer lifts Cubs past first-place Mets
September 10, 1939: Joe Cronin, Ted Williams put a damper on Philadelphia’s 100th anniversary baseball celebration
July 15, 1927: Cardinals’ Jim Bottomley is ‘terror with ash’ as he hits for the cycle
August 4, 2018: Oliver Drake sets major-league record by pitching for fifth team in one season
September 28, 1930: Babe Ruth returns to the mound in Boston, records first win in nine years
April 20, 1921: Eppa Rixey wins his first game for Cincinnati Reds
October 15, 1892: Boston’s Jack Stivetts finishes season with abbreviated no-hitter
June 6, 2017: Scooter Gennett hits four home runs against Cardinals
October 7, 1914: Indianapolis Hoosiers clinch second straight Federal League pennant
May 15, 1915: Chicago’s Claude Hendrix no-hits the Pittsburgh Rebels
July 18, 1914: Baltimore beats banged-up Buffalo for eighth time in nine days, 8-0
July 18, 1914: Baltimore Terrapins ‘parade around the bases’ to win nightcap over Buffalo, 15-2
September 19, 1915: Triple play highlights Whales’ win over Buffalo during Federal League pennant stretch
June 25, 1914: Buffalo and the sheriff greet Hal Chase on his ‘day’ at Federal League Park
October 6, 1914: Another day, another doubleheader, another tie for Pittsburgh Rebels, Baltimore Terrapins
August 16, 1914: Terrapins defeat Chi-Feds when Dutch Zwilling homers and strikes out in same at-bat
September 19, 1915: St. Louis Terriers’ pennant hopes fall in sloppy 12-inning loss to last-place Baltimore Terrapins
This Week in SABR: April 2, 2021
July 19, 1967: Mets ‘Maulers’ Kranepool, Swoboda live up to the hype
August 2, 2020: Tigers’ Tyler Alexander sets record for consecutive strikeouts by a reliever
May 2, 1946: Ted Williams homers in the 10th to win another game for Red Sox