The regular season of 1959 ended a bit late, as it required the fourth pennant tiebreaker in the game’s history, but there was certainly enough going on to justify a few extra days on the schedule: the White Sox scored eleven runs in an inning, on a single hit; a record 93,000 fans (a mark […]

The final season of two-division play brought expansion to Denver and Miami (and almost 4.5 million fans through the turnstiles in the former), a four-homer 12-RBI game from Mark Whiten, a record-tying four five-hit games from Tony Gwynn, saw Dave Winfield become the first player to reach the 3000-hit club at an indoor venue and […]

Joe Medwick became the game’s fourth Triple Crown winner in five seasons, Augie Galan became the first NL player to ever homer from both sides of the plate in the same game, and Carl Hubbell completed a streak of 24 consecutive winning decisions that had begun the previous season. Less auspiciously, the Cincinnati Reds ended […]

The game continued its transition from the dead ball to the live ball and, boy, had things become lively – overall batting averages had climbed above .290 in both Leagues and teams were now averaging more than five runs per game (despite Babe Ruth missing the first quarter of the season following an emergency ulcer […]

The 2010 baseball season was something of a “Year of the Pitcher”, with six no-hitters (including two perfect games, and one that should have been), the most shutouts in forty years, and a record-tying fifteen pitchers notching at least 200 strikeouts. In the Fall Classic, the American League Champion Texas Rangers (90-72) face off (again) against […]