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The Perfect Game, Part 2
Who has not heard of Sandy Koufax? Even non-baseball fans know his name – surprising because his career was relatively short; just twelve years! But during those twelve years he packed more awards, achievements and unforgettable baseball games than almost any other baseball legend – and he did it while playing for just one team – the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers.
He won three Cy Young Awards and during those same Read More...
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The Perfect Game, Kenny Rogers to Roy Halladay, Part 3
The Perfect Game, Kenny Rogers to Roy Halladay
(PeteRose.org) Exactly three years later to the day, Kenny Rogers, left-handed pitcher for the Texas Rangers pitched Major League Baseball’s fourteenth perfect game on July 28, 1994 against the California Angels. His Rangers and the Angels are, to date, the only major league teams to record perfect games against each other and this one was ten years after Mike Witt’s perfect Read More...
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Major League Baseballs 10 Best Hitters of All-Time
MLB’s Ten Best Hitters of All-Time (Pete Rose .org)
Even the unfortunates among us who do not follow baseball are able to name at least two of the greatest hitters in baseball history. Hank Aaron and Ty Cobb would probably be top of the list and rightly so, because that’s just where they both are. But there’s another great whose name may not have been mentioned because of the controversy which, to this da Read More...
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The Complete History of the 3000 Hit Club
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The word “club” has always represented “exclusivity.” Just for a selected few! Not open to everyone! Admittance is reserved for the cream of the crop – the elite, the best of the best; those who have earned the distinction, the honour and the right to call themselves “members.”
And there are no clubs more exclusive than Major League Baseball’s Three Thousand Hits Club!
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The MLB Veterans’ Committee - What is The Veterans’ Committee?
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This is the name given to a separate body of the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame, a group specifically created to provide an opportunity to induct all those eligible for the honour but who, for a myriad reasons, do not qualify for consideration by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Its official name is unwieldy – The National Baseball Hall of Fame Committee to Consider Managers, Umpires, Executives and Long-Retired Pl Read More...
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Players banned from Major League Baseball (MLB)
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Between 1865 and 1920, fourteen people were banned from Major League Baseball, mostly for gambling or “fixing” the results of baseball games. Following the Black Sox scandal, when Shoeless Joe Jackson and seven other players were accused of “throwing” the 1919 World Series, the team owners established the MLB’s Office of the Commissioner of Baseball. They appointed federal judge Kenesaw Landis who, Read More...
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Baseballs Perfect Games (Part 1)
The Perfect Game (Pete Rose .org)
Every baseball game is a perfect game! You’re outdoors, you’re wearing your team jersey, you have a beer in one hand and a hotdog in the other and you’re with your friends at the ballpark cheering on your home team!
What else do you need to make it more perfect than it already is?
Not a thing! But Major League Baseball doesn’t look at it quite that way. For them Read More...
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