Tris Speaker with the Cleveland Indians (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

May 17, 1925: Cleveland’s Tris Speaker records 3,000th career hit

Tris Speaker was accustomed to flying around the basepaths. The…
Jim Fregosi (TRADING CARD DB)

May 20, 1968: Jim Fregosi’s walk-off single completes second career cycle

It was the first trip of the season to California for the 1968…
Tommie Agee

July 24, 1970: Tommie Agee steals home in 10th to win it for Mets

Tommie Agee had the prescience of a soothsayer. During 1970…

September 19, 1972: Oakland A’s use record 30 players in one game

In September 1972, the Oakland A’s were attempting to nail…
Don Hood (TRADING CARD DB

May 2, 1980: Lefty relievers are all right for Cardinals

For the first three weeks of the 1980 season, the St. Louis Cardinals’…
Claudell Washington (THE TOPPS COMPANY)

June 22, 1980: Mets’ Claudell Washington hits three home runs at Dodger Stadium

Although Mets fans did not have much to celebrate in 1980, they…
Bo Dîaz (COURTESY OF ANDREA LONG)

April 13, 1983: Baudilio el Último: Phillies’ Bo Díaz hits an ultimate grand slam

Since 1881, 30 major-league players have hit an ultimate grand…
Pop-Boy Smith (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)

Pop-boy Smith

A teenaged soda vendor at the new Birmingham minor-league ballpark,…
Jeff McCleskey (BASEBALL-REFERENCE)

Jeff McCleskey

Only starting in his major-league debut because shortstop Rabbit…
John Shovlin (BASEBALL-REFERENCE.COM)

John Shovlin

In the first 150 years of professional baseball, more major leaguers…
Frank Sigafoos (TRADING CARD DB)

Frank Sigafoos

In a 1968 interview, former pitcher Bob Logan said this of his…

Effa Manley selected as 2020 SABR Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award winner

Effa Manley, former owner of the Negro League Newark Eagles and…
TWIS archives

This Week in SABR: September 11, 2020

Welcome to "This Week in SABR!" Click here to view this week's…

June 8, 1950: Red Sox beat up on Browns with 29-4 shellacking

It was quite a homestand for the Boston Red Sox. From June 2…

April 23, 1955: White Sox set scoring record, crush relocated Athletics 29-6

For the third consecutive season, major-league baseball had seen…

SABR 50 at 50: Most Impactful Players of the Past 50 Years

Baseball has seen many changes in the last 50 years, and SABR’s…
Jack O'Connor (TRADING CARD DB)

Jack O’Connor

Right-handed Jack O’Connor used his competitiveness and baseball…
Mike Trombley (TRADING CARD DB)

Mike Trombley

At first blush, it might appear that a kid growing up in the…
Lance Berkman (COURTESY OF THE HOUSTON ASTROS)

Lance Berkman

Born February 10, 1976, in Waco, Texas, William Lance Berkman…
Arndt Jorgens (COURTESY OF WARREN CORBETT)

Arndt Jorgens

Joe DiMaggio put his name on a book titled Lucky to Be a Yankee.…
Greg Maddux (ATLANTA BRAVES)

October 21, 1995: Greg Maddux’s gem for Braves spoils Cleveland’s return to World Series

For Atlanta Braves ace Greg Maddux, his long-awaited World Series…
Ichiro Suzuki (SEATTLE MARINERS)

March 29, 2018: Ichiro returns to the Seattle Mariners

It is not always that a star player gets to “come back” to…
Torii Hunter (THE TOPPS COMPANY)

April 6, 2015: Torii Hunter returns to Twins as Paul Molitor makes managerial debut

Anyone can look at Baseball-Reference.com and see the offensive…
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