Sunday afternoon, the Miami Marlins entered their game against the Arizona Diamondbacks with the worst record in the major leagues: 11-32. In just their second season in a taxpayer-funded baseball...
The 1981 All-Star Game boldly goes where no man has gone before.
Sure you know about jinxes, but have you ever actually seen one? Well, now you have, thanks to the inspired cover artist of this 1943 issue of True Sport Picture Stories.
By the time this issue...
The only way the perspective on the cover of this 1947 Green Hornet comic makes any sense is if they're the watching the game on a large-screen television in a room that has steel columns, a vendor...
Sal Maglie, who didn't get a real shot at the major leagues until he was 33 years old, went 59-18 for the New York Giants between 1950 and 1952. When you did stuff like that in the old days, they'd...
In case you're wondering,
- this is a Lego version of Wrigley Field, and
- it took 640 hours to create.
It would have taken longer, but the creator left out the impending JUMBOTRON that's going...
I can't even remember what prompted this, but recently I was moved to acquire a memoir dictated by Ray Crump, for many years the Twins' clubhouse manager. I have to admit that I haven't read it...
Well, that's not literally true. Mitch Williams probably threw the worst pitch ever.
This might be the ugliest pitch ever:
An outlier? Sure! But Felix Doubront's control was hardly stellar the...
Thursday, the brand-new Hillsboro (Oregon) Hops, newest members of the short-season Northwest League, unveiled their brand-new uniforms.
There was a time when most every big-city paper in the land had a sports cartoonist. One of them was Jo Metzer, who worked in Chicago and Philadelphia. And, for about the price of two movie...
If you think about it, almost all the best people have manifestos. [Pause to let you nod in agreement.] Paul Lukas, ESPN's resident uniform authority, has one, too, and it's well worth your time:
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It's still May, and it's a long season so it's completely possible that we'll see an uglier slide than Ian Kinsler's third-base wipeout Thursday night. For example, at some point a player might...
Rob yells at me a lot. Well, we work remotely, but he types in all-caps a lot when I do something wrong. And when I first started, I discovered that one of the things that rankles him the most is...
I know I shouldn't be surprised by this sort of thing any more, but yet I am perpetually surprised by this sort of thing, so now I will share with you and maybe you will be surprised also:
The @m...
