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This Week In Baseball History

Jan 27, 2022

Deion Sanders was one of the greatest, and most controversial athletes of the 1990s, one that would frustrate fans of both baseball and football who just wanted him to pick a sport. This week, 28 years ago, Deion won an NFL championship with the 49ers, becoming the first player to appear in a World Series and a...


Jan 20, 2022

Mays. Mantle. Snider. The 1950s were so awash in great center fielders, it's become fashionable to overlook Richie Ashburn, who was stuck on a bunch of bad teams despite being a truly deserving Hall of Famer. Sixty-two years ago this week, he was shipped from one cellar dweller to another when the Phils sent him to the...


Jan 12, 2022

Rogers Hornsby revolutionized what a middle infielder could be as he became the preeminent slugger of his era in the National League. And, 80 years ago this week, that resulted in him becoming the first player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame since the museum opened in 1939. Mike and Bill look back at...


Jan 7, 2022

With Mike and Bill both on the health and safety protocol list with COVID diagnoses, and Bill having spent much of the last week stuck on I-95 somewhere in Virginia, the boys are forced to rerun an episode from the vault celebrating the amazing life of Roberto Clemente. We'll be back next week with our regular...