According to Baseball Almanac in the calendar year of 2024 we lost 96 men who appeared at one time or another in Major League Baseball.
2024 Arizona Fall League Championship Preview
The Arizona Fall League (AFL) is an annual prospect showcase venture made up of six teams, each of which is stocked with minor leaguers from five different Major League Baseball (MLB) organizations. Those MLB clubs provide seven players each, making for a 35-man AFL roster.
My 1970’s fandom road to the 1980 World Series
My passion for baseball and my hometown Philadelphia Phillies would begin at age nine at the start of the 1971 Major League Baseball season. The 1970's marked the beginning years in my life-long relationship with the game and the decade would close with attending my first World Series in person.
50th anniversary of the Swingin’ A’s trifecta
Jim 'Catfish' Hunter and his Oakland Athletics ball club were the two-time defending World Series champions, the first repeat MLB champions in more than a decade and just the second in two decades. “The Swingin’ A’s,” as they had become known, were a beloved Oakland phenomenon
Major League Baseball Home Run Derby
Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr is the only three-time winner of the Homer Run Derby, taking the crown in 1994 and then in both 1998 and 1999 as a member of the Seattle Mariners.
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