Dirty Jack Doyle: A Baseball Life

The Ball It all started with a baseball. My wife Marilee's otherwise…

The Night Elrod Hendricks Pitched

If Earl Weaver's retirement repose is ever disturbed by nightmares,…
Merle Harmon interviews Herb Score. The 1955 American League Rookie of the Year winner later joined the baseball broadcasting fraternity after his career ended prematurely. (COURTESY OF MERLE HARMON)

Merle Harmon

Merle Harmon interviews Herb Score. The 1955 American League…

The Best-Pitched Game in Baseball History: Warren Spahn and Juan Marichal

Like raging dinosaurs in some prehistoric swamp, the Milwaukee…

Smoky Joe Wood’s Last Interview

Author's note: I met Joe Wood in the early 1980s after I called…

Don Who? Padgett’s Brush With .400 Average in 1939

Consider the following list: Nap Lajoie, Rogers Hornsby, George…

An Unusual Record: Ted Wingfield’s Single Strikeout

Pitching in relief in the final innings of a 12-2 loss to the…

Emmett Ashford: Entertainer and Pioneer

He spent 20 years as a professional umpire, baseball's loneliest…

Cannonball Bill Jackman: Baseball’s Great Unknown

"The greatest pitcher I have ever seen," whispered John McGraw…

Lester Spurgeon Cook: Catcher, Trainer, PCL Legend

When I first became interested in baseball as a little leaguer…

Early Wrigley Field: Weeghman Park, 1914–23

Today Wrigley Field is the second oldest major league ballpark.…

‘He Never Was Much with the Stick’: The Story of Silent Bill Hopke

One of baseball's most exciting plays comes when a batter unexpectedly…

Eliot Asinof: A Baseball Life

Every summer thousands of baseball fans flock to Cooperstown…

Johnny Vander Meer on Pete Rose

I managed the Reds' Tampa farm club in the Class D Florida State…

Eddie Brannick

John Drebinger once wrote of Eddie Brannick, "He has legions…

Sunny Jim Bottomley’s Big Day

Over the years, baseball fans have often debated which record…

Media Guides

For the past two years I have pored over approximately 2,000…

The Indomitable Stormy Kromer

In his 94 eventful years, George "Stormy" Kromer caught for the…

Stolen Victories: Daring Dashes That Send the Fans Home Happy

The slugger stands at the plate in the bottom of the ninth, the…

Finessing the Standard Player Contract

During the 1998-99 off-season free agent Kevin Brown signed what…

A Manifesto for Defensive Baseball Statistics

Current defensive statistics are far less meaningful than batting…

How Old Is That Guy, Anyway?

Recently a friend recalled the first major league game that he…

Faux Real: Dog and Badger Fighting During Spring Training in the Deadball Era

The “sport” of dog fighting captured many headlines in 2007…
Al Johnson, head of the Players' League, pictured in this 19th century woodcut, one of the rare images of this early baseball pioneer. (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

The Wildest Kind of Crank: The Story of Players’ League Magnate Al Johnson

At 3:38 on the afternoon of April 19, 1890, Albert Johnson was…

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