May 20, 1970: Red-hot Rod Carew hits for the cycle, raises average to .432

In 1969 the Minnesota Twins ran away with the first American…

This Week in SABR: August 23, 2019

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June 14, 1959: Carl Erskine hangs ’em up with Dodgers

By 1959, after the Dodgers had been spirited off to Los Angeles,…

May 23, 2002: Shawn Green hits four home runs, sets record with 19 total bases

On May 23, 2002, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shawn Green had a…

Mike Busch

During the Major League Baseball Players Association strike of…

Octavius Catto

While the North’s Civil War victory and the 13th Amendment…

Lave Cross

A nimble catcher before becoming one of the finest defensive…

Tommy Giordano

Tommy “T-Bone” Giordano appeared in only 11 games in the…

Ryan Kurosaki

Hawaiian reliever Ryan Kurosaki was the third American of Japanese…

Jackie Price

If somebody claimed that a person could simultaneously throw…

Dick Wakefield

Failed phenoms are commonplace in baseball, since it is the game…

This Week in SABR: August 16, 2019

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October 6, 1911: Cy Young pitches his final game

Boston’s 1911 National League team was not a good ballclub.…

Bobby Bonds

In 1965, Giants second baseman Hal Lanier and his father, Max,…

Bob Dernier

“The best defensive centerfielder I have seen here in a long…

July 31, 1935: Kitty Burke comes to bat in Cincinnati

As most baseball fans know, the Cincinnati Reds hosted the first…

April 21, 1939: Bob Feller makes his first Opening Day start in front of Judy Garland

The Cleveland Indians were supposed to open the 1939 season on…
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