Red Ruffing: HOF Perseverance
January 8, 2011 by Josh Robbins · 1 Comment
How does a pitcher start his career 39-96 and end up in the Hall of Fame? This is the amazing story of Charles  Herbert “Red†Ruffing. He was born on May 3, 1905 in the tiny village of Granville, Illinois. At an early age,  Ruffing dropped out of school and tended to a mine ventilation […]
The 2010 Pennant Winners (How They Came to Be)
October 26, 2010 by Daniel Hirsch · 1 Comment
Using Bill James’s Win Shares, I’ll take a look at how each World Series team was formed. The information can be found at my site The Baseball Gauge. This page compares all of the 2010 teams. The percentages refer to the team’s percentage of Win Shares that came from each category with their rank in […]
PCL Opening Day: 1953
March 12, 2010 by Brendan Macgranachan · 4 Comments
It was the opening of the baseball season in America. As major league teams wrapped up their respective spring trainings and prepared to throw their opening pitch of the 1953 season in a few weeks time, the Pacific Coast League was ready to start now. Warm west coast weather allowed the PCL season to start […]
