The King of Baseball

September 17, 2013 by Matt Nadel · 1 Comment

Hey baseball fans! As some of you know, Masahiro Tanaka won his 25th consecutive game pitched a couple days ago for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Japanese professional baseball league, breaking the 75-year-old record that was held by Carl Hubbell, the Hall of Fame pitcher for the New York Giants. Some of you might be asking […]

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The Seventh Game of the 1926 World Series: Was it Hollywood or Reality?

August 25, 2013 by Bob Hurte · 1 Comment

I can still remember seeing the 1952 film “The Winning Team” starring Ronald Regan and Doris Day. Of course my knowledge of Grover Cleveland Alexander was non-existent until then. In fact, I might have checked with my father and asked if it were a true story. Which he informed me that Alexander was one of […]

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Koufax or Ryan? Tough choice for Torborg

July 18, 2011 by Dan Schlossberg · Leave a Comment

Don’t ask Jeff Torborg to choose between Sandy Koufax and Nolan Ryan. The only man to catch no-hitters thrown by both can’t make up his mind. A former back-up catcher for the Dodgers and Angels, Torborg caught a perfect game thrown by Koufax in 1965 and no-hitters thrown by Bill Singer in 1970 and Ryan […]

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