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Although few of their fans realize it, the Chicago White Sox were once a minor league club. In fact, they had one of the finest lower echelon teams ever put together in their fledgling year of 1900, possibly the best assembled up to that time. The team that evolved into the White Sox got its […]

Christy Mathewson was probably the greatest pitcher in National League history, and this is reflected in the outstanding statistics he compiled from 1900 to 1916 in victories, percentage, strikeouts, and earned run average. One newly developed statistic for pitchers of his era which is not so outstanding is the number of home runs he allowed. […]

Amos Rusie and Addie Joss, two short-service but highly effective hurlers, scored high in different parts of a survey of old-time candidates for the Hall of Fame conducted in December by the Society for American Baseball Research. Rusie was subsequently elected to the Hall. The primary purpose of the survey was to determine if there […]

This article was originally published in “Baseball in Pittsburgh,” the 1995 SABR convention journal.   While Forbes Field had its share of legendary home runs—Mazeroski’s 1960 Game 7 World Series clout and Babe Ruth’s final three—the old park was the scene of some memorable defensive moments as well: unassisted triple plays by Pirate shortstop Glenn […]

On May 16, 1902, an unprecedented and unparalleled event occurred in baseball history. It was the first and only time two deaf professional athletes—Luther Haden “Dummy” Taylor and William Ellsworth “Dummy” Hoy—competed against each other in an epic encounter at the Palace of the Fans, home of the Cincinnati Reds. A diverse crowd of 5,000 […]