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
Welcome to the Dugout
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.
Player Tributes
Bobby Richardson - Idol Worship - New York Yankees
Johnny Romano - Sweet Honey!
Clete Boyer - Hot Corner Hero - New York Yankees
Gus Zernial - Philadelphia Athletics
"Beeney!" - Fred Beene, Former Major League Baseball Pitcher
Tom "Snake" Sturdivant - Former Yankees Pitcher
Mel Parnell - Boston Red Sox Southpaw - Finesse Inside Fenway
Cecil Travis
Harry Perkowski - Diamond In The Rough!
Tom Tresh and Mike Tresh
Darrell Porter Dies At 50
Dennis Bennett - Against The Odds
Gene Stephens - One Inning Wonder
Danny Walton - Dandy Danny!
Randy "Handsome Ransom" Jackson - Brooklyn Dodgers
Gene Alley - Dead End Alley!
Walter Johnson and Christy Mathewson
Lloyd And Paul Waner
Jim Gentile - Diamond Jim Was A Gem!
Max Alvis - Maximum Overdrive!
Eddie Fisher
Fergie Jenkins
Warren Spahn Dies At 82
Tom Tresh - Yankees - 1962 AL Rookie of the Year
Stories & Lists
1946 St. Louis Cardinals
Baseball Todd's Statistical Analyses And Archives
I Don't See It Happening!
About Baseball Todd
World Series Results
Hickok Award Winners
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