Some baseball manager are tacticians, whereas others are ego-juggling players’ coaches. Some skippers turned to managing after successful baseball careers, whereas others never even made the major league. There is no formula for what makes a successful baseball manager. We can, however, analyze results and
When compared to the NBA NFL or NHL, the Major League Baseball draft is a crapshoot, with only 66 percent of players selected in the first round ever making the Major Leagues. In fact, three times the first overall pick in the MLB draft never
When a team select number one in the Major League Baseball draft they expect to be getting a big time player. However that’s not always the case. In fact, few overall number ones became All-Stars, let alone superstars. Here are ten players who bucked that
The Ernest Thayer poem “Casey at the Bat” is the most famous of all baseball poems and one better known poems of any kind in American history. Using the pen name “Phin,” Thayer published the verses (full name “”Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of
The first African American baseball player in Major League baseball history was Jackie Robinson who joined the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. Larry Doby became the first African American baseball player to join the American League when he suited up for the Cleveland
TBS relationship with Major League baseball began in 1972 when Ted Turner, who owned an Atlanta based UHF station that was then called WTCG (an acronym for Watch This Channel Grow), purchased the rights to broadcast Atlanta Braves games. In 1976 two very important things
Diamond Mind Baseball is a computer baseball simulation game developed by Tom Tippett. It was first made available to the public in 1987. Unlike other popular baseball simulation like Strat-O-Matic, Diamond Mind baseball wasn’t evolved from a board game, rather it was developed as a
During the 2013 season, there were sixteen Jewish baseball players in the big leagues. They are Ryan Braun, Craig Breslow, Ike Davis, Scott Feldman, Nate Freiman, Sam Fuld, Ryan Kalish, Ian Kinsler, Ryan Lavarnway, Boston Red Sox, Jason Marquis, Kevin Pillar, Josh Satin, Michael Schwimer,
The infield rule played a big role in the 2012 National League wild card game. In the eighth inning of the winner-take-all game between the Atlanta Braves and the St. Louis Cardinals Atlanta shortstop Andrelton Simmons came to bat with runners on first and second
Fox sports fantasy baseball is a free fantasy baseball available on the MSN Fox Sports website. Fox Sports fantasy baseball offers all of the features one would expect from a major media website fantasy baseball game. Among these features are draft guides, team previews, average