Joe Pate
Baseball has no player like Joe Pate today. He was a minor-league…
Rodney McCray
Rodney McCray is known as “Crash” for the time he made his…
Kurt Russell
When Oregonians turned to the sports section of their newspapers…
Eddie Onslow
Eddie Onslow could be described as a major-league baseball player,…
Gus Munch
When asked in the twilight of his life to reflect on his baseball…
Pants Rowland
If Pants Rowland had gotten his way, big-league baseball would…
Jack Ogden
John Mahlon “Jack” Ogden played in the major leagues for…
Kid Mohler
Kid Mohler played more games at second base (2,871) than anyone…
Ron Necciai
Ron Necciai is the real-life Sidd Finch, the greatest pitcher…
Dick Porter
Right fielder Dick Porter played 5½ years with the Cleveland…
Grover Resinger
Baseball and baseball players need people like Grover Resinger…
William Rumler
After nearly a century, many baseball historians still wonder…
Butch McDaniel
Often overshadowed by those of two older brothers, Kerry Don…
Millito Navarro
Emilio “Millito” Navarro was one of the patriarchs of baseball…
Dan Morgan
Dan Morgan was inducted into the University of Minnesota “M…
Wally Mattick
A fleet-footed flycatcher with a rifle arm, World War I-era outfielder…
Frank “Shag” Shaughnessy
Frank Shaughnessy was an outfielder who played nine major-league…
Bert Niehoff
Although no more than that of a journeyman, the six-year major-league…
Norris O’Neill
Norris O’Neill, one of three nineteenth-century baseball figures…
W.W. McCredie
"History is the essence of innumerable biographies," wrote historian…
Patrick Purtell
Patrick W. Purtell died in his longtime hometown of Columbus,…
Charles Pinkney
A decade before the Ray Chapman tragedy, another infielder from…
Alabama Pitts
Going from convicted felon and star athlete at Sing Sing Prison…
Lefty O’Doul
Few have eclipsed Lefty O'Doul as a baseball legend in San Francisco.…