Local author’s first book honors a former childhood baseball idol
As a teenager, Jim Bark would wait outside the visiting teams clubhouse at County Stadium in Milwaukee hoping to get an autograph from some of his favorite baseball players. The Racine, Wisconsin ...
Baseball Hall of Fame only has one unanimous selection. What’s the deal with that?
Those 117 gentlemen should have joined Mariano Rivera as unanimous selections to the None of them did. If anything, I undercounted. I do allow for some honest difference of opinion. Nor am I including ...
Meet 9 trailblazing ‘hidden figures’ of Black history from across the Charlotte region
In 1958, Williams chaired the Committee to Combat Racial Injustice, which organized to defend two Black boys, ages 7 and 9, ...
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Fun facts about Bob Uecker and his amazing baseball life
He showed up in the same box scores as Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews, Warren Spahn ... Excellence Award for which he was honored at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Jayson has covered baseball for more ...
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Mark Patton: Mr. Baseball Saved My Summer of Love
Baseball, however, hadn’t heard the last ... “I hit one that day, too, my 399th. Eddie Mathews, left, was managing the Atlanta Braves when he hooked back up with his old roommate, Bob Uecker ...
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Baseball Hall of Fame Year-by-Year Inductees
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] Year-by-year inductees to the Major ...
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'Mr. Baseball' Bob Uecker passes away at 90
Bob Uecker was a famously mediocre Major League hitter who discovered that he was much more comfortable at a microphone than home plate. And that was just the start of a second career in entertainment ...
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Baseball Hall of Fame Year-by-Year Inductees
BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America ... VC: Warren Giles, Hack Wilson. 1978 — BBWAA: Eddie Mathews. VC: Addie Joss, Larry MacPhail. 1977 — BBWAA: Ernie Banks.
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Bob Uecker left it all on the field: In honor of the broadcaster who was so much more
We don't often stray and use this in other walks of life, but in the aftermath of the death of baseball legend Bob ... of Fame players in Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews and Warren Spahn, not to future ...
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Stark: My 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot — the 10 players I voted for, and why
According to Baseball Reference ... George Brett, Wade Boggs and Eddie Mathews beat that OPS+ through their first 10 seasons. Only Schmidt and Mathews topped both that on-base percentage and ...
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Baseball Hall of Fame Year-by-Year Inductees
Year-by-year inductees to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame ... 1978 — BBWAA: Eddie Mathews. VC: Addie Joss, Larry MacPhail. 1977 — BBWAA: Ernie Banks. VC: Al Lopez, Amos Rusie, Joe ...