Abner Dalrymple
“Steady as a clock,”1 Abner Dalrymple was a fixture in left…
Michael Cuddyer
During Michael Cuddyer’s 15-year major league career, he was…
Nomar Garciaparra
After seeing Nomar Garciaparra play, Red Sox great Ted Williams…
Ralph Garr
Longtime Los Angeles Times columnist Jim Murray once wrote that…
Josh Gibson
"There is a catcher that any big league club would like to buy…
Hugh Duffy
For decades, Hugh Duffy was a franchise fixture in Boston, a…
Martin Dihigo
A league pennant was squarely on the line under the brutal Mexican…
Elmer Flick
Best known as the player who Cleveland would not trade for the…
Carl Furillo
People who saw Carl Furillo play most often talk about his throwing…
Jimmie Foxx
As he had done many times in recent years, Jimmie Foxx chose…
Ed Delahanty
One of the greatest right-handed sluggers of all time, Ed Delahanty…
Lou Gehrig
On July 4, 1939, between games of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium,…
Julio Franco
Hailed as the next Robin Yount, Julio Franco debuted with the…
Joe DiMaggio
“Baseball isn’t statistics; it’s Joe DiMaggio rounding…
Charlie Gehringer
You wind him up in the spring and he goes all summer. He hits…
Ferris Fain
When asked to make a list of the best hitters of the late 1940s…
George Gore
Read me some names from a faded box score Culled from the distant…
Tommy Davis
What Tommy Davis accomplished as a major leaguer on one good…
Debs Garms
The list of National League batting champions from the 1930s…
Andres Galarraga
Andrés Jose Padovani Galarraga was known as the Big Cat, or…
Jake Daubert
Escaping the Pennsylvania coal mines, which claimed the life…
Larry Doyle
A left-handed hitter with power and speed who batted .290 over…
Jack Glasscock
John Wesley "Jack," "Pebbly Jack" Glasscock is considered by…
Billy Goodman
The late 1940s Boston Red Sox consisted of larger-than-life,…