The poster hung on the wall of my bedroom in southwest Ohio for years. MVP and CY. Mike Schmidt…
The most important day of the 1980 baseball season may very well have taken place in June of 1971. June…
The Pittsburgh Pirates sent a scout to look at him. He left after a few minutes. Not because he wasn't…
"Green's Phillies Win Brawl Game" read one headline. "Phillies Wrestle First Place Away From Bucs" read another. On May 26th,…
Before there was Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd there was Ozzie Smith. While there may be no truth to the…
Sometimes you witness history and don't even know it. That was the case for the 18,622 people in attendance for…
Bob Horner almost never played for the Atlanta Braves and it would have been Ted Turner's fault. Turner purchased the…
It seemed like a good idea at the time. At the beginning of 1980, Major League Baseball implemented Rule 1004-a,…
I SUCKED at baseball when I was a kid. I was among the t-ball elite of Oxford, Ohio back in…
The complete game is an anachronism in baseball today. But in 1980 it was an important part of the game…