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There was a second ballot in 1936, and it elected nobody. Alongside the writers choosing the modern stars, a panel of seventy-eight old-timers was asked to pick the great players of the nineteenth century,... Read More →
When the Pro Football Hall of Fame opened in Canton, Ohio, on September 7, 1963, five of the seventeen men it was enshrining were not alive to see it. Joe Carr had been dead... Read More →
Every unassisted triple play in MLB history is properly documented by definitive sources, except for the very first one. On May 8, 1878, the Providence Grays’ center fielder Paul Hines charged a sinking line... Read More →
In the summer of 1946, a group of men who owned or operated some of the largest arenas in North America gathered in New York and agreed to start a basketball league. Most of... Read More →
Randy Johnson stood six feet ten inches tall and threw left-handed, which is roughly the baseball equivalent of being struck by lightning that has had a moment to aim. From a release point that... Read More →
The standard answer is four. Ask a knowledgeable basketball fan to name Michael Jordan’s Hall of Fame teammates and you will hear Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Toni Kukoč, and Robert Parish. That is the... Read More →
Over twenty seasons in Los Angeles, Kobe Bryant shared the floor with more than a hundred and thirty teammates. Nine of them are now in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, enshrined as... Read More →
There is a particular kind of fame reserved for the man who gives up a famous home run. He does not choose it, he cannot really prepare for it, and it tends to outlive... Read More →
On June 2, 2010, Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga retired 26 consecutive Cleveland Indians batters. He needed one more out. Jason Donald hit a routine ground ball to first baseman Miguel Cabrera, who flipped... Read More →
Only 13 horses have done it. Out of the thousands of Thoroughbreds foaled each year, out of the hundreds that enter the Kentucky Derby, out of the handful good enough to win the first... Read More →
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