Wamby Pulls a Dandy

March 20, 2013 by Matt Nadel · 2 Comments

Hey baseball fans! I’m pretty sure you’ve all heard of a triple play before, but have you also heard of an unassisted triple play? If you haven’t, let me explain: an unassisted triple play is when one player on the field makes all three outs of a triple play without any help, for example no […]

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The Day “Sunny Jim” Made History

February 22, 2010 by Dave Heller · 1 Comment

One of the great things about going to a baseball game is youâ€™ll never know what you will see. Perhaps you might witness a no-hitter or a triple play. Or, as was the case for roughly 8,000 fans in Brooklyn on Sept. 16, 1924, a record which has yet to be broken. Certainly there were […]

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