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Yogi Berra played in 2,120 major-league games. All but four of them were in a New York Yankees uniform. The three-time American League MVP ended his playing days with the crosstown Mets; his final effort came on May 9, 1965, in the first game of a Mets-Braves Mother’s Day doubleheader at Shea Stadium. Berra went […]

1975 was a year of epic battles. Muhammad Ali won four heavyweight championship bouts including the “Thrilla in Manila” against Joe Frazier; Carlton Fisk jumped into sports history with his game-winning home run clearing Fenway Park’s left-field wall in the bottom of the 12th inning in Game Six of the 1975 World Series; and a […]

For the third straight year, the New York Yankees were not headed to the postseason. According to Jim McCulley of New York’s Daily News, the 1946 Yankees (82-65) were “stoically situated in third place and going no place else.”1 The Philadelphia Athletics (49-97) were finishing in last place for the second consecutive campaign (and sixth […]

Baseball fans in the small-town New York-Penn League discovered an extra reason to go to games in the summer of 1975. On certain nights, there was a chance that beloved Hall of Famer Yogi Berra might join them in the stands at one of the short-season Class A loop’s modest ballparks. Yogi and his wife, […]

Phillies manager Eddie Sawyer selected Bob Miller to start the fourth game of the 1950 World Series. Miller was 11-6 during the season, a solid performance, but as Ken Heintzelman’s 3-9 record obscured a strong finish in September, Miller’s was deceiving as well. He was pitching at less than full capacity. He had pitched well […]

With a 100-54 won-lost record, the Montreal Royals finished the 1946 regular season in first place in the International League, 18½ games ahead of the second-place Syracuse Chiefs. The Royals were affiliated with the Brooklyn Dodgers and were managed by Clay Hopper. The most sensational player in the league was Jackie Robinson, the Royals second […]