In 1900, there was no such thing as air conditioners, movies, corn flakes or bubble gum. But somehow, in baseball, we consider 1900 to be part of the "modern" era. You couldn't listen to a game on a ...
If baseball had its way in the mid-1960s, the birthdays and anniversaries of the biggest expansion class in the game’s history wouldn’t happen for another couple of years. The Kansas City Royals are ...
Given the many, many variables which go into building a baseball team, and given how long it takes to build a winner, there aren’t all that many true Cinderella stories in the national pastime.
The Redmen will be led into the 1969 season by two All New England players, shortstop and co-captain, Joe DiSarcina, and outfielder, Bob Hansen. Joe played brilliantly the past two years and has hit ...
A look at the championship team captured in the 1969 Topps Baseball set. By Jay Schreiber Tom Seaver won the rookie of the year award in 1967, finishing 16-13 for a Mets team that was still nowhere ...
Courtesy photo Members of the 1969 undefeated Altoona Area High School baseball team include (from left): First row--Steve Sauers, Paul Hargreaves (deceased), Bob Ramazzotti (deceased), Ralph Williams ...
The 1969 Topps baseball card set isn't always included in the "iconic" lists, or listed as one of the most important sets ever produced, and that's ok - it wasn't. It does, however, include some very ...
Casey Stengel always said the Mets would win when they put a man on the Moon. Both miracles happened in 1969. The whole world didn’t stop on July 20, 1969, when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the ...