The Fleeting Baseball Memories of Bill Whitby

May 2, 2012 by Andrew Martin · Leave a Comment

For baseball players who get only a handful of games or less at the major league level, it must be terribly frustrating to wonder about the what ifs. Reaching the pinnacle of professional baseball for a few fleeting moments before it goes away forever is the ultimate in mixed emotions. Bill Whitby got to experience […]

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Back to the Future: The SPORT Magazine 1969 Major League All-Stars

July 26, 2010 by Mike Lynch · 5 Comments

While going through my old magazines (again) I saw an article from the July 1964 issue of SPORT titled “A Look Into the Future: The 1969 All-Star Team” written by John Devaney.Â Devaney polled more than 50 big league managers, coaches, veteran players, writers and sportscasters to find the players whom they believed would be […]

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