Pitcher Dick Voss1 had a horrible year in 1964. In fact, he struggled…
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One of baseball’s most beloved and enduring mascots is Milwaukee’s…
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The Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies took wildly different…
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The Boston Red Sox had won three games in a row by spectacular…
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Naturally, the Rockies were glad to return home to Denver, even…
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By the seventh-inning stretch, a feeling of doom pervaded Denver.…
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Wilbur Good was a Deadball Era pitcher (5 games) and outfielder…
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The Cincinnati Reds’ Fred Toney was a big, 6-foot-2, rugged…
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The long love affair between Minnie Miñoso, the first black…
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The Chicago White Sox were happy to be back at home for a Sunday…
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On a sweltering summer afternoon on July 1, 1910, the ballpark…
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The White Sox had good reason to want to get this day’s game…
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It was an epic pitchers’ duel between the Philadelphia Athletics’…
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July 30, 1964: Snakebitten Dick Voss puts it all together for minor-league one-hitter
August 16, 1970: Bat Day crowd brings the original Bernie Brewer down in Milwaukee
October 24, 2007: Rockies’ juggernaut hits a roadblock in Boston for Game 1
October 25, 2007: Curt Schilling’s final game gives Red Sox a triumph in Game 2
October 27, 2007: Boston’s bats push Rockies to the brink in Game 3
October 28, 2007: Red Sox complete sweep of Rockies to win World Series
Jerry Howarth
Don Chevrier
Tom Cheek
Kid Carsey
Wilbur Good
Bobby Keefe
Joe Nealon
Dan Morogiello
Ted Sizemore
Bill Steele
Bill Thomas
July 1, 1917: Reds’ Fred Toney goes the distance twice in one day
May 1, 1951: Minnie Miñoso homers in first plate appearance for White Sox; Mickey Mantle boosts Yankees with first career homer
July 12, 1951: Saul Rogovin goes 17 innings in losing effort for White Sox
May 31, 1914: Joe Benz humming on all cylinders with no-hitter
July 1, 1910: ‘Baseball Palace of the World’ opens with White Sox’s first game at Comiskey Park
August 29, 1915: Jim Scott tosses shutout in 68 minutes, shortest game in White Sox history
August 4, 1910: Jack Coombs, Ed Walsh hook up in scoreless, 16-inning pitchers’ duel for the ages