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“George Crable Batting .400 in the Harmony League.” — Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 24, 19111   Nebraskan left-hander George Crable parlayed two games with the Brooklyn Superbas in August 1910 into a nearly two-decade baseball-themed vaudeville stage career. Sadly, he lost all of his sports and theater memorabilia in a 1931 fire at his cigar […]

Joe Torre stood facing the outfield wall like a child in a time-out. Behind him, a short, blocky man fired a baseball against the concrete wall. Torre, standing six feet away, tried to field the rebound. Cardinals coach George Kissell was teaching the catcher to play third base, teaching the quick reactions the position demands. […]

George Bignell played in only four major league games, all in the short-lived 1884 Union Association, but he nonetheless established a major league record that continues to stand to this day-most chances accepted by a catcher in a nine-inning game. On October 3, 1884, Bignell was the catcher for Milwaukee in a match with the […]

George Zuverink was a side-arming sinker-baller who topped the American League in relief appearances in consecutive years, including 1956, when he was retroactively recognized as the circuit’s saves leader.1 The righthander pitched parts of eight major league seasons. After breaking in with the Cleveland Indians (1951-1952), he hurled for the Cincinnati Redlegs (1954) and Detroit […]