Luis Rivera
“Where is the furniture?”
To Luis Rivera and his five Latino…
Eddie Stack
Right-handed pitcher Eddie Stack was a collegiate and semipro…
Ted Simmons
He was an eight-time All-Star, batted .300-plus seven times,…
Paul Snyder
Paul Snyder was the indispensable man behind the scenes of the…
Dick Phillips
Between games of a doubleheader in Chicago on May 5, 1963, on…
Grover Resinger
Baseball and baseball players need people like Grover Resinger…
Merle Settlemire
The 1928 Red Sox, very anxious to work their way out of the American…
Roe Skidmore
“In my mind’s eye, I can still see Joe Torre – he was playing…
Jim Russo
Super Scout: Thirty-five Years of Scouting was the name of…
Red Ruffing
Hall of Famer Red Ruffing’s career is a reminder that you…
Eddie Robinson
Former Rangers general manager Eddie Robinson may hold the record…
Alex Pompez
Alex Pompez, a Cuban American, was among the most influential…
Tony Robello
Baseball scouts, it has often been said, are the backbone of…
Tony Roig
The talent-starved Washington Senators of the early 1950s recognized…
Johnny Schulte
A backup catcher in all of his five years in the Major Leagues,…
Cy Slapnicka
Few men were employed in organized baseball longer than Cy Slapnicka.…
Craig Shipley
In 1986, Craig Shipley became the first player trained in Australia…
Connie Ryan
Although he had far from the best year of his career in 1948,…
Scipio Spinks
Whenever the subject of best baseball names comes up, Scipio…
Jerry Stephenson
The careers of Jerry Stephenson and his father Joe embrace over…
Bill Sayles
It is fitting that Bill Sayles started his big league career…
Hank Severeid
Hank Severeid caught for four major-league teams between 1911…
Nap Rucker
Nap Rucker was one of the Deadball Era's top left-handed pitchers.…
Herb Stein
Herb Stein is a baseball rarity in that his whole career was…