May 26, 2020 | Baseball, MLB, News
Harvey Haddix was a pretty good pitcher. He was second in the Rookie of the Year voting in 1953, was a three-time All-Star, and won three Gold Glove awards. He won 136 games over the course of 14 seasons spent with the Cardinals, Phillies, Reds, Pirates and Orioles....
May 26, 2020 | Baseball, MLB, News
After a short, one year absence, the Los Angeles Dodgers returned to the Fall Classic on the arm of ’63 Series winner Sandy Koufax. The postseason-proven lefty had just finished the regular season with a 26-8 record, a 2.04 ERA and a perfect game to boot (his...
May 26, 2020 | Baseball, MLB, News
In the fall of 1856, a New York Times cricket journalist spotted a fascinating game of “base ball” being played across the field. Henry Chadwick knew baseball well enough but was now seeing the game in a new light as if for the first time. He had never...
May 26, 2020 | Hockey, News, NHL
Here’s how you know a player is extra special: His name inspires an adjective. And in the first decade of the 21st Century, amazing plays became “Datsyukian.” There were Datsyukian dekes, (coined by Red Wings announcer Ken Daniels), and Datsyukian...
May 26, 2020 | Basketball, NBA, News
For a guy who sat on the bench in his senior year of high school and was barely noticed by college recruiters, Dennis Johnson was an unlikely NBA hero. A born fighter who didn’t have the greatest natural skills, Johnson battled his way from mediocrity as a prep...
May 26, 2020 | News, The Sports Page
June 1 remains a pivotal date in MLB negotiations As talks continue about the possibility of the 2020 season getting underway, “the greatest differences between the players and owners, for now, remain economic,” Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich of...
