Pete Rose, baseball’s banned hits leader, has died at age 83 Banished baseball great Pete Rose has died The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2024
Nine Ways Aaron Judge Continues to Inspire Awe The Yankees slugger has been so hot that he can start slumping and still break his own AL home run record. Sports Illustrated · Aug 26, 2024
Aaron Judge Is Somehow Better Than He Has Ever Been The Yankees slugger has virtually no weakness at the plate, and he appears to only be improving. Sports Illustrated · Aug 7, 2024
Willie Mays obituary Baseball’s most exciting player and the first black superstar of the post-integration era The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2024
Collectibles Prove to Be a Solid Asset Class for Investors Anyone with a passion for certain collectibles and the patience to wait for values to grow could see some strong returns. Kiplinger · Dec 15, 2023
Among baseball’s greatest home runs, include one by the Cubs’ Dave Kingman There was no electronic tracker device for either the Kingman or Glenallen Hill home runs, so neither can definitively claim official honors as the longest at Wrigley. But both were awesome. Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 7, 2023
5 iconic sports moments that are probably lies They have to be made up. USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 30, 2023
Ron Cook: MLB is bursting at the seams with young stars, exciting storylines PITTSBURGH — Remember when the Pirates were the talk of baseball? When the sport buzzed about their shocking 20-8 start? It seems like a lifetime ago now, doesn't it? The Pirates have gone 15-34 since. They have turned back into laughable losers. Tribune News Service · Jun 27, 2023
Reds’ Joey Votto Compares Elly De La Cruz to Mickey Mantle The veteran has been very impressed by Cincinnati’s rookie phenom. Sports Illustrated · Jun 25, 2023
Aaron Judge Names His Mount Rushmore of Yankees Greats The star slugger made his picks for the greatest players to ever don the iconic pinstripes. Sports Illustrated · Jun 3, 2023
Mark Story: Cotton Nash, once a Kentucky basketball ‘rock star,’ dies at age 80 Charles Francis “Cotton” Nash, one of Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball’s all-time greats, died early Tuesday. He was 80. Tribune News Service · May 23, 2023
Joe Pepitone, flamboyant Yankees All-Star, dead at 82 He went on to play for the Cubs from 1970-73 and finished his career with the Braves and the Yakult Atoms of Japan’s Central League in 1973. He hit .258 with 219 homers and 721 RBI. Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 14, 2023
Working at SI Was a Dream Fulfilled For the first 12 or so years of my life, I was convinced that one day I would be the starting catcher for the Yankees. I was a switch-hitter, like my idol Jorge Posada, and I wore No. 7 for Mickey Mantle, the player I was almost named after. I… Sports Illustrated · Feb 17, 2023
Checking in on Yankees mega-prospect Jasson Dominguez entering 2023 Otherworldly, the Martian, the next Mickey Mantle or simply Mike Trout: These are the designations that were broadcast across the baseball world about Jasson Dominguez when he inked a franchise-record international contract with the Yankees. Tribune News Service · Jan 30, 2023
Sports Illustrated · Dec 28, 2022 Andruw Jones’s Hall of Fame Case Comes Down to His Historic Peak He was one of the best players ever through his age-30 season, but his decline was sudden and steep.
Sports Illustrated · Dec 13, 2022 ‘Make Me Laugh, Make Me Cry’: You Need to Know Joe Donnelly Tom Verducci says goodbye to his friend and mentor, who died Sunday at 87.
Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 26, 2022 This baseball quiz is a numbers game For those of you keeping score, this quiz holds special meaning: it’s by position
WhatToWatch · Nov 20, 2022 Tulsa King season 1 episode 2 recap: Dwight goes on a trip In Tulsa King episode 2, we learn more about Dwight's family, both his business one and his personal one.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 14, 2022 SI:AM | It’s a Make-or-Break Week in College Football There are six games on the schedule in which both teams are ranked in the AP Top 25. In four of those games, both teams are undefeated.
Tribune News Service · Oct 5, 2022 What makes Aaron Judge special? MLB’s top sluggers weigh in as Yankee great chases history. NEW YORK — Jim Thome’s 14-year-old son, Landon, has come down to breakfast at the Thome household most mornings this baseball season with a question for his old man, the fearsome Hall of Fame slugger who smacked 612 home runs during his playing career:
Sports Illustrated · Sep 29, 2022 Aaron Judge Makes History, but 61 Is Not the Record Barry Bonds holds the single-season record, yet what the Yankees star has accomplished is still worth celebrating.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 13, 2022 Everything in Aaron Judge’s Career Led Him to This Historic Season After years of work and study, the Yankees’ slugger is a hitting master coming into his own at the right time.
Tribune News Service · Sep 4, 2022 Bill Madden: Breaking down the upcoming bidding war for Aaron Judge NEW YORK — In what is becoming a truly historic season, Aaron Judge has joined Hall of Famers Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Jimmie Foxx, Ralph Kiner and Ken Griffey Jr. as the only non-steroids-tainted players to at least twice hit 50 or more homers in a season. And barring a…
Tribune News Service · Aug 30, 2022 Yankees' Giancarlo Stanton predicts an exciting last month of baseball for teammate Aaron Judge ANAHEIM, Calif. — Giancarlo Stanton is the only other person in that Yankees clubhouse who knows what it feels like. The slugger hit 59 home runs in the 2017 season, so he knows what Aaron Judge is feeling and facing.
The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2022 Mickey Mantle baseball card sells for record £10.8m at auction The card was issued in 1952 by Topps