In the real-world winter of 1992,the Braves and Yankees were each in a battlefor free agents Bonds and Greg Maddux, with New York losing Bonds to San Francisco in part because the Giants guaranteed a sixth year while the Yankees,who still had a record-setting offer out to him,would not...
MySpace had only debuted the previous year, and while Facebook was launched one month prior to the start of the Sox season, it was still known as “The Facebook.com” and was only accessible to Harvard students.Of course, 2004 was also an election year. Then-Delaware Senator Joe Biden ...
though, announcing at the beginning of the year that they would permanently sew digits on all of their players' uniforms. In a strange twist, the Yankees home opener was rained out, andthe Cleveland Indians—who also decided to add permanent numbers—became...
This was the year that the Red Sox were going to break the famous Curse of the Bambino...until Mets outfielder Mookie Wilson hit a routine ground ball to first baseman Bill Buckner and the ball miraculously rolled through Buckner's legs. The Mets won the game and eventually the series. I...