Ruth's powerful left arm, which helped him earn the nickname "The Bambino," was responsible for some of the most impressive pitching performances of the era. Although his pitching days were ultimately overshadowed by his legendary hitting prowess, Ruth's impact as a southpaw pitcher cont...
we’re living in its golden age. Distant is the memory of a time where all you had was a fistful of channels on your nan’s terrestrial static magnet — now, we’re simply spoiled for choice. The old guard are still going strong; your BBCs, ...
Don Larsen delivered one of history’s greatest pitching performances in Game 5, facing 27 batters and retiring all of them in a perfect game. It’s a feat that hasn’t been duplicated in the postseason, and it stood as the only playoff no-hitter until Roy Halladay threw one in 2010....
Frank, Bert, and pray for rain isn’t a perfectly precise way to describe the starting rotation—Les Strakerdeserves credit for pitching at an above-average level—but… there’s a reason why 12 different arms earned a start in 1987. Even the 2023 Twins, a team nestled in the heart of ...
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But the dozens of hit songs they wrote for girl groups and teen idols during that time (often with producer Phil Spector pitching in) were as close to raw erotic fervor as you could hear on the radio at the time: the Crystals' "Then He Kissed Me," the Shangri-Las' "Leader of the ...
And beat them they did, thanks in large part to one of the greatest individual efforts in Game 7 history. Jack Morris pitched 10 shutout innings, silencing Atlanta and setting a standard by which all future Game 7 pitching performances would be judged. The Twins could not support him with ...
One of the greatest athletes of all time – and the greatest basketball player of all time – went through one of the greatest individual comebacks in the history of not just one sport, but two sports. On October 6th, 1993, Air Jordan announced his first retirement from basketball, following...
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He posted a 3.08 ERA in his first year with Minnesota, and though bad pitching had Twins starters making short starts, Gray was among the best of the bunch. Then came 2023. Noting in spring training that he intended to go deeper in games, Baldelli was going to need better perfor...