From the Archives: “The Mysterious Floating Sensation”

August 11, 2020 by Mike Lynch · Leave a Comment

The following was originally posted on October 6, 2008 and an abridged version appears in Baseball’s Untold History: The Wild Side published by Summer Game Books in 2017. Did he or didn’t he? That’s the question. Eddie Cicotte is widely recognized as the inventor of the knuckleball, earning his nickname “Knuckles” around 1908, his first […]

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The Ultimate Seven-Game Fall Classic: Game Three

November 6, 2010 by Mike Lynch · 1 Comment

In part one of my Ultimate Seven-Game Fall Classic series, I featured Game One of the 1988 World Series between the Oakland A’s and Los Angeles Dodgers. Part two featured an epic 14-inning battle between the Boston Red Sox and Brooklyn Robins in Game Two of the 1916 Fall Classic. For Game Three, I’m staying […]

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