Baseball’s Biggest Blowout Games, edited by Bill Nowlin

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Whitey Ford (THE TOPPS COMPANY)

April 22, 1964: Yankees’ Whitey Ford wins his 200th game in the Windy City

It was April 1964. The top five songs on the Billboard Hot 100…
John Hoover (THE TOPPS COMPANY)

September 3, 1984: Olympian John Hoover has a golden day in season finale for Rochester

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A promotional poster advertising the September 4, 1916 matchup between Mordecai Brown and Christy Mathewson. This game would be the last of 24 matchups in which the two future Hall of Famer pitchers would face each other. (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)

September 4, 1916: Pitching legends Mordecai Brown, Christy Mathewson duel for the final time

A promotional poster advertising the September 4, 1916 matchup…
Roberto Clemente (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

May 24, 1961: Roberto Clemente, the ‘College’ Cubs, and an incident in Mississippi

The Pittsburgh Pirates were still enjoying the aura of their…
Tommie Agee

October 5, 1969: Mets score 11 runs to beat Braves in Game 2 of NLCS

The New York Mets entered the 1969 National League playoffs with…
New York-Penn League baseball (COURTESY OF KURT BLUMENAU)

August 3, 1972: Brewers farmhand Tom Deidel records no-hitter but no win for Newark

In 1991 the major leagues adopted stricter requirements for no-hitters,…

October 7, 2016: Corey Kluber, Indians shut out Boston in Game 2 of ALDS

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IWBC unveils memorial dedicated to African American women in baseball

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Scott Carter joins SABR staff as Executive Vice President

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George Elder (BASEBALL-REFERENCE.COM)

George Elder

As of September 2020, when this story was originally published,…
Rap Dixon (NOIRTECH/LARRY LESTER)

Rap Dixon

On December 12, 2018, at the Negro League Baseball Museum in…
Don Aase (THE TOPPS COMPANY)

Don Aase

Drafted out of high school, Don Aase began his professional baseball…
Wayne "Rasty" Wright (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

Wayne “Rasty” Wright

Wayne Bromley “Rasty” Wright spent his entire adult life…
John Flinn (TRADING CARD DB)

John Flinn

Throwing sinkerballs with his right-handed, three-quarters delivery,…
Tom Gastall (TRADING CARD DB)

Tom Gastall

Nearly a quarter-century before Thurman Munson perished in a…
J.B. Young

J. B. Young

Right-handed pitcher J.B. Young celebrated his 35th birthday…

William C. Bryan

William Cornelius Bryan, Jr. was a minor league player and manager…
Bill Lattimore

Bill Lattimore

The most coveted player in the September 1907 minor league player…

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