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.
Player Tributes
Gene Alley - Dead End Alley!
Stu Miller - Relief Pitcher Extraordinaire!
Clete Boyer - Hot Corner Hero - New York Yankees
Harry Brecheen Dead At 89
Walter Smith Baseball Photos
Warren Spahn
Gene Stephens - One Inning Wonder
Bob "Beetle" Bailey - Montreal Expos slugger
Jackson Richard Newville
Stan Lopata - Former Phillies Catcher
"Beeney!" - Fred Beene, Former Major League Baseball Pitcher
Tom Tresh and Mike Tresh
Fergie Jenkins
Oscar Gamble - Dream Weaver!
Randy Jones - Recipe For Success
Johnny Grubb
Bobby Morgan - Brooklyn Dodgers
Cecil Travis - Super Senator!
Tom "Wimpy" Paciorek - Seattle Mariners And Chicago White Sox Player
Walter Johnson and Christy Mathewson
Harry Perkowski - Diamond In The Rough!
Johnny Romano - Sweet Honey!
Eddie Fisher
Max Alvis - Maximum Overdrive!
Stories & Lists
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About Baseball Todd
Fearsome Pitchers
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Pitching Brothers - Same Team
Baseball Todd's Award Picks
Baseball Todd's Top 10 Lists
Pitching Brothers - Same Team
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