Deals involving multiple-Cy Young winners have a checkered past, for both the dealers and the dealt.
Whether using pigskin or horsehide, a few great teams have generated a few great disappointments.
While PEDs are often linked to issues of national health, this isn’t the first time baseball has dealt with such a link.
What tales could we tell in the annual if space wasn’t at a premium?
Really long deals obviously involve risks, but may also come to be write-offs.
This offseason’s Alex Rodriguez affair has a historical parallel in the 1916 holdout of a great Red Sox center fielder.
Wrapping up the grand historical tour of the game’s four-and-out championships.
The rundown of World Series blankings continues, with a look at pinstriped domination in the late ’30s.
A review of the World Series teams that only needed four games to wrap things up.
Time for the Bill James-style test now that the Joe Torre era is over in New York.
The Indians wandered off the beaten warpath for many years after their heyday in the postwar period.
You think times are tough now? Dial up the wayback machine to Orwell’s year for some real pain.
The 2007 Mets are already being compared to the 1964 Phillies, which puts skipper Willie Randolph in Gene Mauch’s shoes.
The perils of head trauma, and how it can derail a promising career.
In days past, stress broke even the best ballplayers, ending careers and even lives.
Different players adapt, learn, and improve according to their gifts, no implicit value judgment needed.