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Oct 11, 2019 · A collection of some of the earliest photographs of people playing baseball taken in New York and Massachusetts during the late 1800's.
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- Chubachus
Step up to the plate and relive the most iconic and unforgettable moments in baseball history! From game-changing plays to legendary home runs, this video co...
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- Explore Wonders
Aug 17, 2015 · This video shows you amazing baseball plays that you will never forget! These are some of the best plays of all-time!
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- Khwaja107
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- Beginning of The World Huntington Avenue Grounds, Boston, October 1, 1903
- The Babe Sportsman’s Park, St. Louis, October 6, 1926
- Pure Greatness Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, October 6, 1963
- Move Over, Babe Atlanta Stadium, Atlanta, April 8, 1974
- Slow Ride Shea Stadium, Queens, N.Y., August 26, 1983
- Foresaking The Faithful Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, August 11, 1994
- Phans Delight Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia, July 2, 1995
- Tainted Time Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., March 17, 2005
- The Song Before The Game Camden Yards, Baltimore, April 4, 2005
- The Weight Is Lifted Progressive Field, Cleveland, November 2, 2016
The first world series was more a peace offering than a battle for supremacy. In 1901 and ’02 the National League and the American League had been locked in pitched battle. The NL, formed in 1876, was baseball’s top circuit, but in 1901 the American League declared major league ambitions, placing franchises in NL cities and engaging in bidding wars...
Babe Ruth didn’t break a mold so much as create one. He began his career at the end of a Dead Ball era, when managers emphasized baserunning and defense, and the sacrifice bunt was a significant offensive weapon. But rules changes—including the banning of the spitball in 1920 and enforcement of regulations against other doctored pitches—set the sta...
Sandy Koufax had been merely good through the first seven seasons of his career, but beginning in 1962 he went on one of the greatest runs any pitcher has known. Suddenly, having tweaked the delivery on his fastball, the Dodgers lefty was all but unhittable. From ’62 to ’66 he won three Cy Young awards and led the league in ERA each year. He went 1...
As a teenager in Alabama in 1948, Hank Aaron skipped school to hear his hero Jackie Robinson speak at a drugstore and came away inspired. Aaron began his pro career with the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro leagues, before coming to the Braves as a minor leaguer in ’52. What he did after reaching the majors two years later was establish himself as ...
It is often the nature of technology that first we find out if we are capable of creating something, and then we wonder whether we need it. It was like that with the baseball cart. The early adopters, if you will, were the Indians in 1950 and the White Sox in ’51. These versions were just cars—though the comedy potential was tapped early when Chica...
The promise of every sports season is that it will end in the crowning of a champion. That promise was broken, for the first time in any sport, with the baseball strike of 1994. Baseball had seen seven previous work stoppages, including a nasty one in ’81 that cut out the middle of the season and resulted in the oddity of sending first-half and sec...
The resemblance between the Phillie Phanatic and a Muppet is not a coincidence: The mascot was created in Jim Henson’s puppet factory. And like Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, the Phanatic, even in his mascot’s silence, has been entertaining families for generations. Costumed mascots have enlivened baseball since Mr. Met arrived in 1964, and he he...
In 1998 Sports Illustrated named Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa its Sportsmen of the Year, and a headline above the story declared “Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa treated the nation to a home run race that was as refreshing as a day at the beach.” Soon after, though, fans were feeling burned. In ’98 McGwire and Sosa not only chased Roger Maris’s single-s...
Baseball is an American game—as American as apple pie and Chevrolet, according to the calculus of a 1970s car advertisement. The game is also where “The Star-Spangled Banner” and sports first became intertwined. During the Cubs–Red Sox World Series of 1918, as the United States was in its second year of fighting in World War I, a live military band...
After winning back-to-back World Series in 1907 and ’08, the Cubs lost in the Series in ’10 but surely figured, How far off could the next title be? The Cubs did reach the World Series again—six times, up through 1945—but they never won one and the wait, after a certain point, became the stuff of gallows humor, a catalog of cursed moments and some ...
Aug 30, 2012 · Top 10 Greatest Photographs in Baseball History. The criteria for choosing and ranking these photographs are historical significance, artistic composition, action, and people involved. Some of the photographs’ nicknames were provided by the lister.
Apr 2, 2016 · 9 Pictures of Baseball Around the World. Celebrate the start of the U.S. season with these photos from our archives. The U.S. Major League Baseball season starts on Sunday, and fantasy...
