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Speed Ain’t Everything
Glancing Back, and Remembering Smoky Burgess Smoky Burgess was one of the best hitting catchers in the history of baseball. He retired as one of the most prolific pinch hitters in the history of the...
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Buc in the Hot Corner
Glancing Back, and Remembering Don Hoak Don Hoak was nicknamed “Tiger” partly because of his pre-baseball athletic career as a boxer, and partly because of his tough, aggressive style of play as a...
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12/13 Perfect, and Pretty Solid Otherwise
Glancing Back, and Remembering Harvey Haddix Left-hander Harvey Haddix will always be remembered best as the pitcher who carried a perfect game into the thirteenth inning in a May 25, 1959 game...
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The Power in Polo
Homer Happy: Frank Thomas From their inaugural season of 1962 until 1975, the New York Mets’ single-season record for home runs belonged to a right-handed hitting outfielder who played for the Mets...
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Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Bullpen
This Week in 1960s Baseball (July 27, 1961) The San Francisco Giants today defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0 behind the shutout pitching of Juan Marichal (7-7). It was Marichal’s first shutout of...
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Shoulda Been a Hero
Glancing Back, and Remembering Hal Smith When Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski blasted the first walk-off home run in World Series history in 1960, his lead-off solo home run in the...
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No-Hit Catcher
Glancing Back, and Remembering Jim Pagliaroni Jim Pagliaroni was strictly a 1960s catcher. All but one game of his decade-long career was played in the 1960s, where he toiled for four teams with...
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