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1. Who were the two Cincinnati pitchers who took a rowboat across the outfield wall of a flooded Crosley Field in 1937? 2. Where did the 1914 Boston Braves and the 1915-1916 Boston Red Sox play their home World Series games?3. In several World Series, all the games were played in one park; name the […]

As a Little Leaguer in Southern California, I was thrilled when the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. I saw a few games at the Coliseum, but when I went to Dodger Stadium for the first time, I thought I was in heaven. Six years later I pitched a game at Old Colt Stadium in Houston […]

The Philadelphia area is the birthplace of the United States flag as well as America’s first modern bank, zoo, electronic computer, volunteer fire company, farmers’ market, trade union, magazine, stock exchange, and professional surgery.  It is where the Declaration of Independence was signed, it was the nation’s first capital, and is the home of the […]

Gerry Nugent and the Phillies were flat broke. Worse than that: They were concave broke. Not only were they penniless, they were in debt to the National League. NL president Ford Frick went looking for somebody to rescue the franchise. Bob Paul, sports editor of the Philadelphia Daily News, was approached by local sports promoter […]

The story of how Frank Baker, the Philadelphia Athletics star third baseman, earned the nickname of “Home Run” is well known to even casual fans of baseball. As his Hall of Fame plaque states, he “won two World Series games from [the] Giants in 1911 with home-runs thus getting name ‘Home Run’ Baker.” Although this […]

Scouts and managers extoll as a kernel of truth: “Experience will trump the value of youth”; That theory is touted at the most crucial times, When pressure is greatest, with so much on the line. One team turned that thought on its ear With a measure of fame that lasts to this year; In baseball’s […]

The history of baseball in America has always been closely tied to the history of race in America. The progression of baseball from an exclusionary sport to a beacon for integration and eventually to a global game has paralleled our country’s movement from slavery to the civil rights movement to modern day multiculturalism. While the […]

On Saturday, the tenth of September in 1881 at Albany, New York, the Troy and Worcester teams of the National League played a championship game. In the early days of League baseball, especially late in the season, it was considered good promotion to play a game on neutral ground for the publicity value and in hopes […]

There have been scores of players called “Doc” in the long history of major league baseball; however, the ones who earned the nickname by virtue of a degree in medicine have been few in number. Yankee pitcher George “Doc” Medich, who attends the University of Pittsburgh Medical School in the off-season, is the latest to […]

The story of Jimmie Foxx is bittersweet. In his prime, he was one of baseball’s greatest sluggers. But his career diminished prematurely as he battled injury and alcohol. Foxx struggled with life after baseball and ultimately died before his time. So, who was James Emory Foxx, and how should he be perceived by fans in […]