Category Archive: Articles.2007-TNP

Debs Garms: 1940 National League Batting Champion

If a baseball fan scanned the list of National League batting…
The National Pastime #27 (2007)

The National Pastime (Volume 27, 2007)

John Wesley Callison: ‘I’m the Biggest Worrier in the World’

In December 1959 I was studying for my master's degree in history…

Ray Brown in Canada: His Forgotten Years

Ray Brown: Hall of Famer When Negro Leagues great Ray Brown…

The Suspension of Leo Durocher

"I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight,…

Tom Greenwade and His 007 Assignment

On April 24, 1943, Brooklyn Dodger president Branch Rickey sent…

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…

‘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…

The Indomitable Stormy Kromer

In his 94 eventful years, George "Stormy" Kromer caught for the…
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…
Roberto Clemente (MLB.COM)

Retiring Clemente’s ’21’: True Recognition for Latinos in the Majors

"Most of what I learned about style I learned from Roberto Clemente."…

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