What Is the Longest World Series Drought?
Among current teams, the Cleveland Indians have endured 71 non-championship seasons since last...
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Category: Baseball Briefs
How Many Baseball Games Are Played in a Season in the MLB?
Each team in Major League Baseball plays 162 games per season. Since there are 30 MLB teams, and...
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Get Your 1969 Topps Jim Maloney Before It Gives Up Another Hit
The timeline is slightly murky but … By the time young collectors got their sweaty little...
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Roger Craig and the 1963 New York Mets Had Far to Go
How long would you expect a Major League team to go before winning on a particular day of the...
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How Darryl Cias Walked Off into History
If Darryl Cias has a motto, it just might be … “save the best for last.” See,...
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Bryn Smith and the Hand that Feeds
Future Major League managers Terry Francona and Brad Mills shared their cardboard debut in the...
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The Blazing Speed of Ted Williams v. The Megawatt Power of
By all accounts, and certainly by the statistics, Ted Williams was one of the greatest hitters of...
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That Time Jeremy Jeffress Made You Dig for a Frank Williams Baseball Card
One of the great things about the advent of Sabermetrics over the past several decades is the...
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Juan Marichal and the End of Completeness
One marker of the beginning of the modern hobby era was when Topps began issuing cards all at once...
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Vargas, Vargas, Expos, and Tax Day
I have a mental block about New York Mets left-hander Jason Vargas, who we’ve been hearing a...
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Carlos Gonzalez Channels Ellis Burks in Move to Cleveland
For old guys like me (or at least for me specifically), the Colorado Rockies still feel like a...
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A Kong-Sized Day in Home Run History
If you’re a fan of home runs that break the bounds of our normal expectations, then...
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