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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Cecil Travis
Where Have You Gone Fred Beene?
Gus Zernial - Philadelphia Athletics
Lloyd And Paul Waner
Harry Brecheen Dead At 89
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Eddie Fisher
Bobby Morgan - Brooklyn Dodgers
Warren Spahn
Tom "Wimpy" Paciorek - Seattle Mariners And Chicago White Sox Player
Darrell Porter Dies At 50
"Beeney!" - Fred Beene, Former Major League Baseball Pitcher
Fergie Jenkins
Jim Gentile - Diamond Jim Was A Gem!
Stan Lopata - Former Phillies Catcher
Bob "Beetle" Bailey - Montreal Expos slugger
Phil Bradley, Former Major Leaguer, Seattle Mariners, Missouri Tigers
Max Alvis - Maximum Overdrive!
Harry Perkowski - Diamond In The Rough!
Johnny Romano - Sweet Honey!
Randy Jones - Recipe For Success
Dennis Bennett - Against The Odds
Warren Spahn Award
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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