There’s a real place called Peace River, and you better believe it was the home to multiple beautiful baseball fields; a player in 1906 suggested batters should get to choose between running to first or third base; a writer in 2019 suggests fixing the tainted 2017 World Series with hook-a-duck or welly wanging.
Recapping Game 163 that decided the NL Central winner—focusing on the big game from Orlando Arcia that nobody saw coming.
The Game 163 tiebreaker featuring the Cubs and Brewers isn’t for all of the marbles, but just enough of them to make the loser’s road to the World Series fraught with handicaps.
A look back at baseball’s most recent single-elimination game.