Bud Daley, a Fremont County resident for 49 years, overcame a withered arm disability and went on to pitch the final game of the Yankees' 1961 ...
Member of the 2004 Red Sox reunited at Mohegan Sun to revel in the feat that changed baseball, reversed 86 years of ...
Peter Ames Carlin is the author of well-received biographies of Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, and the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson. He turns his attention to music's subsequent generation ...
He led an active life that included the unique and unusual. He rode a unicycle, mastered throwing a knuckle ball pitch, and enjoyed a variety of plants and salt water aquariums with exotic fish.
Former big league pitcher Fernando Valenzuela enjoyed a 10-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The club gave him a chance and bought out his Mexican Pacific League contract in 1979.
Sanju Samson became the first Indian – and fourth overall – to hit back-to-back hundreds in T20Is as India’s seventh 200-plus ...
Not that you need reminding, but the 2003 Red Sox season that’s highlighted in that episode was ended by Aaron Boone’s ...
Being liked in your hometown is one thing. But when your good deeds earn for you an affectionate nickname, you have ...
When the New York Giants got the final out of the 1954 World Series and converged to celebrate, their catcher found himself ...
One of the few modern practitioners of the knuckleball, Wakefield used the slow-moving but elusive pitch to win 200 games in ...
Tim Wakefield was a pitcher in the MLB for 19 seasons — 17 of which he spent with the Red Sox. He was best known for mastering the knuckleball. The former pitcher was remembered by his teammates ...
The different things he could do on the pitch, his skills. The way he took free kicks ... The Portuguese popularized the knuckleball technique, relying on pace, swerve, and dip to beat the goalkeeper.