Known as "Charlie Hustle" for his relentless playing style, Rose amassed 4,256 hits, surpassing Ty Cobb's record, and set the records for most games played and at-bats in MLB history. Despite his outstanding on-field achievements, including three batting titles, a World Series MVP award,...
Rose was 44 and the team's player-manager. Batting left-handed against the San Diego Padres' Eric Show in the first inning, he smacked a 2-1 slider into left field, a clean single. The crowd of 47,000-plus stood and yelled. The game was halted to celebrate. Rose was given the...
hitting .269/.364/.440 for an OPS+ of 120 and helping the Blue Jays to their first title in ’92. Olerud followed that up with a breakout ’93 -- the 24-year-old finished third in the MVP voting after leading the AL in batting (.363), on-base percentage...
The Mets made a trade to acquire Chris Bassitt from the Oakland A's. New York gave up two prospects for a guy who spent his 20s bouncing between the major and minor leagues. However, the last three seasons have all been with Oakland, combining to go 27-11 since 2019. The Mets have ...
the way to a 73–57 win over UCLA, who have more NCAA men’s basketball championships than any other school. This would be the beginning of a brief dynasty, as the Gators also won the2007 championship, becoming the first school to win back-to-back titles since Duke in the early 1990s...
the way to a 73–57 win over UCLA, who have more NCAA men’s basketball championships than any other school. This would be the beginning of a brief dynasty, as the Gators also won the2007 championship, becoming the first school to win back-to-back titles since Duke in the early 1990s...
the way to a 73–57 win over UCLA, who have more NCAA men’s basketball championships than any other school. This would be the beginning of a brief dynasty, as the Gators also won the2007 championship, becoming the first school to win back-to-back titles since Duke in the early 1990s...
Leslie Bibb, born in North Dakota and raised in Virginia, is an acclaimed American actress and model. Her career hit the spotlight when she won a nationwide modeling search conducted by The Oprah Winfrey Show and the Elite Agency at the tender age of 16. This achievement led her to sign ...
For the first and only time in history, the American League and National League both had triple crown winners (leading in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in). Jimmie Foxx socked 48 home runs, drove in 163 runs, and batted .356 for the Philadelphia A's, while Chuck K...
But he did leave the Pirates a present to put under their tree. He convinced Brown and a reluctant Rickey that coach Danny Murtaugh, another guy from that Rockwell painting, was the right man for the job. (World Series titles in 1960 and 1971 would prove him right.) ...