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We didn’t tweet in 1977, but if we had, I’m sure we would have assailed the year we lived in for being #TheWorst for taking from our midst so many beloved icons (and that’s not counting the baseball business conducted on June 15 of that year). Elvis...

I can fly higher than an eagle, for you are the wind beneath my wings… 1. Vin Scully and the Dodgers Match Walk-Offs One by one, we say goodbye to the greatest summers of our lives. A man in Pasadena, California, shakes his head, smiles and clicks...

Even the president of the league can’t help but laugh about it, the optics of it all. Branch Rickey1 chuckles when I reach him at his office outside Austin, Texas, where he runs Triple-A baseball’s Pacific Coast League. That there was a city...

I was going to do an intro, but this thing is long enough. I was going to do links and pics but I have a tailgate party to get to. 1972 ALCS: A’s (3) vs. Detroit (2) Goodness, there are so many to choose from here. This series had everything...

While growing up in the 1960s and coming of age during the 1970s, it seemed the collective conscience about various baseball players, not just Hall of Famers, was long-lived and extensive.  Ironically, with ESPN and other 24/7 digital sports media...