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Nothing is better than good baseball movies. They combine the joy of watching something new and the love for the all-American pastime, and they feed on the emotions of true baseball fans. Baseball movies often take unbelievable situations and make you think how awesome it would be if, for instance, a boy could break his arm and then throw harder than More...
Seventh-inning stretch tradition lives on at Wrigley Field
Bill Murray is always welcome to participate in Wrigley Field’s seventh-inning stretch tradition. (WGN) When the Chicago Cubs brought Harry Caray on board to do play-by-play back in the early 1980s, he brought More...
Whatever happened to collecting baseball cards?
Thinking back to my childhood, there were few things I enjoyed as much as going to my local baseball card shop (yeah they head those way back then) and searching for whatever treasures had avoided me to that point. More...
Let’s play two! 30th anniversary of the Joel Youngblood trade
Joel Youngblood is the only player in major league history to get a hit for two different teams in two different cities on the same day. Thirty years ago, one of the more unusual events in major league history took More...
Puking in the press box and other baseball memories
David Freese provided an idelible memory for St. Louis Cardinals fans last October. (ZUMApress.com) Memories are one of the many things that makes baseball such an amazing sport, and baseball has provided many memories More...
What Jackie Robinson means to this country
Major League Baseball players throughout the league celebrated Jackie Robinson day by wearing number 42. The Dodgers celebrated, too, with a walk-off win. (Keith Birmingham/Zuma Press) On Sunday, the entire league More...
Remembering a Chicago Hall of Famer: Kirby Puckett
Kirby Puckett's game-six home run helped propel the Minnesota Twins to a 1991 World Series title. (Photo by Ron Vesely) The best World Series I’ve ever seen — before 2011, that is — happened More...
30 greatest offensive players of the modern era, part one
Babe Ruth (right) and Ted Williams top the list of greatest offensive players. One of the great things about baseball is you can use statistics to judge players you’ve never seen play. Baseball has some variables, More...
Remembering Gary Carter
Gary Carter helped the Montreal Expos to their only playoff appearance in 1981. (sportsillustrated.cnn.com) Sports fans have the uncanny — some might say insane — ability to recall exactly where they More...
Top-10 list: Baseball mustaches are a thing of beauty
The best of the best: Rollie Fingers' handle-bar mustache. When making a top-10 list, many things are needed. Knowledge of a topic and a clear understanding of why it’s a list-worthy subject are important More...
