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In 100 years of major league’ baseball, there have been nearly 117,000 home runs hit in regulation games. Less than 2 percent of these, or 2150, have been hit in extra innings. Yet, these overtime homers have been very important. About 90-95% of the time they provide the winning margin. In 1975, for example, there […]

    Baseball rules were amended in 1891 to allow for substitute batters for other than emergency conditions. That was 86 years ago; yet, from a recordkeeping standpoint, there are still many gaps regarding the performance of pinch hitters on a seasonal and a career basis. What pinch hitter had the most doubles, triples, or […]

It isn’t hard to believe that during 1965 spring training manager Gene Mauch had the Philadelphia Phillies practice defending the steal of home. The team was a victim of the play on three different occasions down the stretch in the 1964 pennant race.It isn’t hard to believe that during 1965 spring training manager Gene Mauch […]

The date was October 14, 1972. Families across North America gathered around their wood-paneled television sets to watch Game One of the World Series that Saturday afternoon.  Many fans in the televised audience had not seen the Oakland A’s or the Cincinnati Reds in a regular-season contest.  There stood the Reds along the first-base line […]

The dictionary defines the word “Elysian” as “something blissful; delightful,”[fn]Webster’s College Dictionary (New York: Random House, 2001).[/fn] and for ballplayers, such a place has existed for 140 years in the city of New York. Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs of New York City and if considered as a separate entity would rank fourth […]