How the Triple Crown Became Baseball's Rarest Feat
Leading a league in batting average, home runs and runs batted in during the same season is the Triple Crown, and it is one of the hardest feats in baseball. It demands that a hitt
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The unofficial website for any and all baseball fans. Player tributes, baseball stories and record lists written by Todd Newville, who chased down the game's greats for interviews, autographs and grip-and-grin photos.
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Fergie Jenkins
Warren Spahn
Max Alvis - Maximum Overdrive!
Stan Lopata - Former Phillies Catcher
Lloyd And Paul Waner
Warren Spahn Dies At 82
Jim Gentile - Diamond Jim Was A Gem!
Dennis Bennett - Against The Odds
Harry Brecheen - Deceased Cardinals Pitcher - One Cool Cat
Frank Thomas - "The Original"
Roy Sievers - Slugging First Baseman
Mel Parnell - Boston Red Sox Southpaw - Finesse Inside Fenway
Tom "Wimpy" Paciorek - Seattle Mariners And Chicago White Sox Player
Danny Walton - Dandy Danny!
Tom Tresh - Yankees - 1962 AL Rookie of the Year
Darrell Porter Dies At 50
Bobby Morgan - Brooklyn Dodgers
Solly Hemus - Former Cardinal - A Rare Bird!
Gus Zernial - Philadelphia Athletics
Harry Perkowski - Diamond In The Rough!
Gene Alley - Dead End Alley!
Willie Stargell Dies At 61
Walter Smith Baseball Photos
Cecil Travis - Super Senator!
Stories & Lists
1946 St. Louis Cardinals
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From the Dugout Blog
Warren Spahn and the Lost Art of the Complete Game
Warren Spahn won 363 games, the most by any left-hander in history, and he finished what he started. He threw 382 complete games and 63 shutouts, numbers that read like a misprint
The 500 Home Run Club, Explained
The 500 home run club is baseball's most famous power milestone. For decades, reaching 500 career home runs was treated as an automatic Hall of Fame credential, a sign that a hitte