I didn’t get my prize for this week confirmed, so this one is for bragging rights!  We all know the last time the Pirates had a winning season, Barry Bonds played on their team, in 1992.  Bonds did not have the highest batting average on the team however. (His OBP and Slugging both blew everyone [...]

Wally Yonamine was the first American born player to play baseball in the Japanese professional leagues.  He took much of the American game and introduced an aggressive style of play that the Japanese at first found offensive and then saw the advantage to.  As an American, he also withstood a huge amount of criticism and [...]

This week’s prize for our Tuesday Trivia Contest is Baseball’s Book of Firsts, which documents many of the major firsts in baseball. It might be the first stadium to use a tarp during a rain delay (Reds), or it might be the first player to steal 100 games in a season (Maury Wills). [...]

With all the talk about shortstops this morning, I thought this might be a fun question.  It is a little on the hard side, but since if you know this one you deserve just to have some recognition, this trivia contest is just for bragging rights.  If you know the answer, every time you post [...]

Saw this morning that Evan Longoria hit his 20th home run this weekend, making him one of only 5 players to hit 20 home runs and 30- doubles in his first three seasons in the big leagues.  The other 4 are Orlando Cepeda, Joe Dimaggio, Albert Pujols and Ted Williams.  Now that is some company [...]