by David Krell | Jan 31, 2017 | David Krell
Baseball is a game of sounds. The crack of the bat. The roar of the crowd. The shouts of the vendors. Radio announcers, of course, provide sonic backdrops from optimism lacing spring training to tension surrounding the World Series. Ernie Harwell, Vin Scully, Red...
by David Krell | Jan 28, 2017 | David Krell
Christy Mathewson and the New York Giants enjoy synonymity—you can’t think of one entity without the other. It wasn’t always that way, however. Big Six, as Mathewson became known, began his major league tenure with the Cincinnati Reds. John Brush owned...
by David Krell | Jan 23, 2017 | David Krell
In 1888, Timothy Keefe won 19 consecutive games for the New York Giants. Or did he? On July 16th, Keefe left the mound in the second inning of a game against the Chicago White Stockings—he played the rest of the game in the outfield. Buck Ewing, the Giants catcher...
by David Krell | Jan 21, 2017 | David Krell
When Bill White hit a home run in his first major league at-bat, he began a journey of solidity that garnered career statistics of 1,706 hits, 202 home runs, and a .286 batting average. Beginning his career in 1956 with the Giants, White also played for the Cardinals...
by David Krell | Jan 20, 2017 | David Krell
Dick Groat does not have the fame of Bill Mazeroski, the immortality of Roberto Clemente, or the legend of Willie Stargell. Nevertheless, he was a mainstay of the Pittsburgh Pirates for a majority of his major league career, which spanned 1952 to 1967. In the October...
