Only rapture." Ott died in an auto accident in New Orleans in 1958; he was interred in Metairie Cemetery. Ott died in a similar manner to two other N.Y. Giant Hall of Famers: Frankie Frisch in 1973 and Carl Hubbell in 1988 (the latter 30 years to the...

But if a player has 300 Win Shares and a .600 winning percentage, that's like a pitcher with 260 Wins and a .600 winning percentage, and that would be comparable to Bob Gibson, Bob Feller, Carl Hubbell, and Jim Palmer, pitchers who had around 260 Wins...

Their inductions helped drive the peak-heavy candidacies of Wilson and Klein, each of whom did squat after their 10th season. Averill is an interesting case because

League Baseball certainly had its pitchers, like Christy Mathewson, Carl Hubbell and Jack Coombs. (I could not discover any notable, screwball pitchers who played for the Chicago Cubs or Chicago White Sox.) Golf can certainly have its (zany and...

Carl Hubbell, the great New York Giants’ lefthander, won 253 games and lost 154 during his great career. Pitching his team to three pennants (1936 and 1937) and one world championship (1933), Hubbell was known as Giants’ Manager Bill Terry’s “Meal Ticket.”

At this point, I'm already pretty much mesmerized because she is still on this date with me while I am wearing a Devil Rays hat and talking baseball. First clue: the player played in the American League his entire career. "George Brett?" Nope. Second...