The Million Dollar Home Run
A radio station offered a million bucks to a listener if they correctly predicted a very unlikely hit.
A radio station offered a million bucks to a listener if they correctly predicted a very unlikely hit.
Carl Scheib was pitching in the majors at an age when many teens are learning to drive. Ted Williams couldn’t keep up.
In addition to the admiration of teammates and coworkers everywhere he went, Cookie literally had a fan club.
The famously one-handed pitcher threw a no-hitter in 1993. So of course, we’re going to talk about his batting skills instead.
Sometimes your professional basketball team folds and you just have to find work plying the outfield for the Cubs.
He didn’t play in 1952, but that didn’t stop kids who opened packs of cards that year from thinking he did.
Adjust his numbers for age and you suddenly get the most prolific base stealer ever.
A smiling member of the “one vote for the Hall of Fame” Club.
Breaking into Major League Baseball in 1940, the Washington Senators’ Sid Hudson never got to pitch to Babe Ruth. He did, however, do all he could to shut down the Yankees in Ruth’s final Yankee Stadium appearance.