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THE BIRTH OF THE RYAN EXPRESS

June 15, 2021

Bob Klapisch remembers the extraordinary career of pitcher Nolan Ryan—whose strong but inconsistent performance with the team that drafted him led to one of the most regretted trades in baseball history—when the New York Mets traded Ryan to the California Angels for Jim Fregosi in 1971. Courtesy: The Trading Card Database  There was a three-hour time […]

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Baseball for breakfast: Kellogg’s 3-D Super Stars

June 17, 2019

When I first starting collecting baseball cards back in the 1970s, Topps had a virtual monopoly on the industry. There were a few other companies putting out their own cardboard collectibles, but they made up a microscopic portion of the market. Hostess, for example, occasionally printed a trio of “panel” cards on the bottoms of […]

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HOW THE WORLD SERIES ORIGINATED—AND ALMOST UNRAVELED

June 20, 2019

On October 11, 1902, the closest thing to a World Series that year reached its anticlimactic finish. In front of 4,768 fans at Pittsburgh’s Exposition Field, Cy Young pitched a five-hit shutout to lead a team of American League All-Stars to victory over the National League–champion Pittsburgh Pirates. Pittsburgh had already clinched the four-game exhibition […]

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THE 1917 FENWAY PARK GAMBLERS RIOT

March 6, 2021

Part 3 Now that we’ve established how gambling was entrenched in baseball culture as far back as the 1860s and how baseball officials had numerous opportunities to get rid of its worst offender, Hal Chase, let’s take a look at the most farcical game-fixing incident of the Deadball Era. If there was ever any doubt as to how […]

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HOW DEREK JETER CAME TO BE A YANKEE IN THE 1992 DRAFT

June 26, 2019

In part 4 of his five-part series on the MLB draft, Rob Neyer describes how the rising cost of bonuses helped the Yankees sign Derek Jeter in the 1992 draft. For want of $50,000, a Hall of Fame shortstop was lost. That’s how the story goes, anyway. For as long as the draft had been […]

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