Moment 3: Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hits his 71st home run of the season on October 5, 2001.
Bonds played from 1986 to 2007, for the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants. Bonds’ accomplishments during his baseball career place him among the greatest baseball players of all-time. He has a record-setting seven MVP’s, [...]
12/31/10
Moment 24: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox finishes the 1941 season with a .406 batting average, the last player to do it so far.
Williams played his entire 21-year baseball career for the Boston Red Sox (1939-1942 and 1946-1960). Williams’ career was twice interrupted by military service as a Marine Corps pilot. He [...]
12/30/10
9/6 15:04: Here’s the video:
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9/6 13:58: No video yet, but according to the Associated Press, a fan at the Toronto Blue Jays game was struck by a falling metal letter from a sign honoring Jackie Robinson. He was struck in the right shoulder [...]
09/06/10
Baseball has rarely, if ever, given us much certainty. In spite of our beliefs, we feast on baseball with a hope that between the lines something certain, something tangible will take place before our very eyes. Amidst work stoppages and steroid controversies, we do this now with more uncertainty than ever. Should [...]
06/04/10
Anytime there are more than about three African Americans on the active roster, Juan Pierre says black players across the Majors start joking with each other about “the quota”.
Morgan Campbell of thestar.com explains that if one more African American joins the team, the joke goes, “the team will have to cut one of the originals [...]
04/17/10
Ken Kendrick, managing general partner of the Arizona Diamondbacks, has quietly kept a passion that he has had since childhood: collecting baseball cards. Craig Harris of The Arizona Republic tells us that Kendrick has no ordinary collection, but rather an elite set of cards that includes the rarest of them all – a rare T206 [...]
04/17/10