(Pirates) Curt Roberts is merely a footnote in baseball history. Maybe not even that. A lightweight second baseman by any measure, the 5-foot-8, 165-pound native of Pineland, Texas, hit .223 in 171 Major League games. He homered once in 575 at-bats. No...

Al Leiter. Going to the the bottom of the ninth inning, the New York Mets held a 3-2 lead. Facing fire-balling Armando Benitez, O'Neill had one of the great at-bats in World Series history. It wasn't a Joe Carter home run that won the 1993 World Series.

The following are the top 10 moments of the crazy decade of the sixties. The Yankees defeated the Pirates 38-3 in their three World Series victories in 1960. The Pirates won their four games by seven runs. In Game 7, the two teams entered the bottom of...

Sandberg's 282 home runs aren't that great until you consider that among Hall of Fame second basemen he's second behind only Rogers Hornsby who had 301 home runs. Sandberg's .285 career average is higher than Joe Morgan or Bill Mazeroski. There are...

It requires acoustic couplers that attach to a phone receiver and don't work when there is any background noise or vibration, which means it rarely works inside a loud stadium, but is just fine for a 1980s Mariners game. Age 24: I begin a job editing...

It might be argued that one great game shouldn't make that much difference in Hall of Fame voting, but I believe that 1991 clincher proved how reliable Morris was. He is the only pitcher with an extra-inning shutout in the deciding game of a World Series.