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As major league baseball grew throughout the late nineteenth century, a limited number of players earned national recognition for their on-the-field prowess. From that small group emerged an even smaller [...]

One of the most unusual baseball games in American League history took place at Shibe Park, Philadelphia, on May 18, 1912. Nominally a contest between the Philadelphia Athletics and the [...]

In 1947, the Pittsburgh Pirates installed an inner fence in a portion of Forbes Field, reducing the distance down the left field line of the ballpark by 30 feet. The [...]

Happy Felton, an all-around entertainer of a long-gone era, aggressively and successfully marketed his skills as a dance-band leader, musician, master of ceremonies, actor, comedian, and radio-stage-vaudeville performer for two [...]

In 1878 a triple play by Providence's Paul Hines didn't attract any extraordinary attention other than the excitement of a triple play that saved the day for Providence. The Hines [...]

Nestled in Perry County in southeast Kentucky--the heart of the Appalachian coal country--lays the quaint city of Hazard, population just over 4,400 souls. The county and the city are named [...]

PART I: THE GREAT GLASS ERA In the damp and chilly spring of 1907, at the height of the great glass era, an erudite professor of languages, a polite young [...]

MY GREAT-UNCLE, DAVE FOUTZ, was one of the true stars of baseball during the nineteenth century. My research began with the knowledge that he had played major league baseball, but [...]

A Baseball Hall of Fame visit brings lifetime encounters with diamond legends: the Bambino and Rajah, Lefty and Old Aches and Pains, Mr. Cub and Ryan's Express. Secure in this [...]

When I was eight years old my grandfather somehow arranged for me to meet Brooks Robinson. To this day, I don't know exactly how he did it. At the time, [...]

George Herman Ruth Jr (1895-1948)--popularly known as "Babe," "The Sultan of Swat," or "The Bambino"--is considered by many baseball fans to have been the greatest player of all time. Ruth [...]