When the Pro Football Hall of Fame first opened its doors, five of the seventeen men it was enshrining were not alive to see it. Joe Carr had been dead twenty-four years; Jim Thorpe,... 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, and only a small fraction of them ended up in the Hall of Fame. The... 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, in Detroit, Armando Galarraga retired the first 26 Cleveland Indians he faced. The 27th, Jason Donald, grounded to the right side, Miguel Cabrera fielded the ball and threw to Galarraga... Read More →
Real Quiet was four lengths clear at the eighth pole of the 1998 Belmont Stakes, one furlong from the Triple Crown, and lost it by a nose to Victory Gallop. He had a great... Read More →
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame describes Moses Malone as “The first modern player to go straight from high school to professional basketball,” and the hardest-working word in that sentence is “modern.” Malone... Read More →
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