The first All-Star game
While the "Century of Progress" World's Fair was in full swing, anevent occurred on this day that changed baseball history: the first All-Star game. A few months earlier, Chicago Mayor...
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PERFECT PENMANSHIP
I have been saying hello for so many years, I'm not sure whether I know how to say goodbye. On Tuesday I begin a new assignment and will be joining...
80-YEAR-OLD ANGELS SCOUT STILL LOOKS FOR `INSTINCTS, QUICK FEET’
When former White Sox manager Al Lopez was the captain and iron-man catcher with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1930s, his favorite sports page reading appeared in the old New...
YANKEES’ TORRE, ZIMMER ARE DUGOUT CLONES
No two managers and no two people are precisely alike, but according to the Yankees' official line, Joe Torre and Don Zimmer are baseball's Bobbsey Twins. They've been together so...
VIZQUEL IN A MOST SELECT FIELD
The late Donie Bush, a baseball lifer who was among Ty Cobb's teammates at Detroit, was talking about the great shortstops he had seen. And he had seen them all,...
A BAD CLOSER OPENS A WORLD OF DIFFICULTIES
The Atlanta Braves had arrived at Wrigley Field on Friday for a weekend series against the Cubs and the talk in the Atlanta dugout was about which is the most...
ONLY IN BASEBALL WOULD LEE, WILHELM SHARE COMMON GROUND
White Sox outfielder Carlos Lee hit a home run in his first at-bat at Comiskey Park last Friday night. In major-league history, only 75 players previously had opened their career...
ENOUGH BOOKS ON BASEBALL TO BAT AROUND
As a baseball bibliophile, I am swamped. There has been a flood of baseball books: biographies, team histories and assemblages of previously published works, such as George Vass' wonderful collection...
ROCKIES’ MAY BECOMES RARITY: 2-WAY COACH
Kurt Abbott, a utility infielder with the Colorado Rockies, was uncomfortable at the plate and didn't get a good swing. When he returned to the dugout he saw Milt May...
FROM HOMEWOOD-FLOSSMOOR TO BIG-LEAGUE MANAGER
He grew up in Beverly and attended Morgan Park Academy and Homewood-Flossmoor High School. His mother says when he was 3 years old, he was dragging a glove "as big...