I am not saying Vincent was a saint as baseball commissioner, but Vincent absolutely loved the game of baseball and wanted to see it grow and the owners fired him for not backing them on their desired labor stoppage. Then the owners got what they...
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This is the grave of Steve Brodie. Born in 1869 in Warrenton, Virginia, Brodie mostly grew up in Roanoke. His father was an actor when he could get a work,.
I am trying to swallow my anger at the single idiot who did not put Ichiro on their Hall of Fame ballot to celebrate the fact that Ichiro is now.
This is the grave of William Hulbert. Born in Burlington Flats, New York in 1832, Hulbert grew up in Chicago. His family moved to the new city on Lake Michigan in 1834 and he lived there the rest of his life, outside of going to...
This is the grave of Jerry McMorris. Born in Rock Island, Illinois in 1940, McMorris grew up in the trucking world. His dad owned a small trucking company and McMorris.
This is the grave of Jimmy Piersall. Born in 1929 in Waterbury, Connecticut, Piersall grew up in that town and became a high school baseball star. In 1948, the Boston.
Congrats to Dave Parker and Dick Allen for being elected by the Veterans Committee Hall of Fame. Parker is the classic Veterans Committee guy, in that he was a very good but not great player who no one is going to really complain about in...
This is the grave of Ty Cobb. Born in 1886 in Narrows, Georgia, Cobb grew up in very rural and poor Georgia, but he wasn't so bad off himself. In.
This is the grave of Harmon Killebrew. Born in 1936 in Payette, Idaho, Killebrew up the son of the local sheriff, who also painted for extra money. His father was.
This is the grave of Kevin Hickey. Born in 1956 in Chicago, Hickey grew up on the south side. He was a good but not great athlete and a terrible student, expelled from his Catholic high school for never showing up for class. He eventually...
This is the grave of Bob Howsam. Born in 1918 in Denver, Robert Howsam, but always Bob, grew up pretty well off. His father ran a bee-keeping business, which I.
This is the grave of Dan Brouthers. Born in 1858 in Sylvan Lake, New York, Brouthers grew up in a Catholic immigrant family. This was a working class family; his.