Of course, it's great to be two rows up from Derek Jeter on the deck circle, but if you're way out in left field, there's beauty from every angle. Sadly, Derek Jeter did not make an appearance in the episode ... We ran the gamut there, with Derek Jeter...

It was Allen who provided advice to a young Gossage against the AL's bigger hitters when they were both with the White Sox. Other Hall of Famers such as Carlton Fisk, Gaylord Perry and Reggie Jackson made their way over to interact with Allen,...

Satchel Paige, a former Pittsburgh Crawfords member, and his team of all-stars faced his old squad in 1939 after it had moved to Toledo. Paige, a Hall of Fame pitcher, played against the Crawfords in a series Sept. 11-12 at Toledo's Swayne Field. ...

If he does, it won’t be more than a few days.’’ David Wells is expected back for a second spring as an instructor and Lou Piniella will work with players and with YES Network. Hall of Famer Yogi Berra is expected to arrive when the games start in March...

In 1977 both the Yankees and my brother were the apotheosis of success. The Yankees celebrated their 75th season in New York with 100 wins in the regular season. After that the team, led by Reggie Jackson, had a stunning victory in the World Series...

Finally, Carter went over the top in 2003, with 78 percent of the vote, perhaps thanks to a little help from a budding Hall of Fame analyst at FutilityInfielder.com: As with many a favorite foe such as Reggie Jackson and Pedro Martinez, my feelings...

Darling spoke with Carter shortly after the cancer was diagnosed in May, but their subsequent communication was by text. He had been part of a Stand Up to Cancer commercial that was shown before Game 1 of the World Series. He and other baseball...

Business as usual, you bet. Another memory which I witnessed a year later, again at Yankee Stadium, stuck with me. It was 1980 and Reggie Jackson was having one of his best seasons and people were beginning to speculate on whether Reggie was a future...

Dan O'Neil is the WPIAL's Mr. February. O'Neil, a Beaver County resident and the athletic director at Deer Lakes High School, is the chairman of the WPIAL Basketball Steering Committee, the folks who put together the brackets for and help run the...

In fact, they almost all have a no-doubt-about-it immortal represent them in Cooperstown. Check out the Yankees, for instance. Each of their blizzard of rings has featured one of these six players on the team: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio,...

Left-handed pitchers are the cats of Major League Baseball because it seems like they get nine lives. No one put those lives to the test more than Steve Howe. The Dodgers drafted Steve Howe with the 16th overall pick in the 1979 draft, sending him and...

My mother casually mentioned that my grandfather had been signed by the Yankees when he was a young ballplayer, though he never made it to the big stage. My ears perked up, and I started to pay closer attention. Reggie Jackson kept hitting homeruns,...

"Yes, I have," protested Jordan with a grin before Saturday night's game. "I've made a free throw." That alone on most nights might be right up there with the Miracle on Manchester, but this was Bob Welch striking out Reggie Jackson on 11 straight...

Francisco Bay since 1968. They have been the green-and-gold standard of Bay Area baseball for several decades, winning four World Series titles, six American League pennants and 14 AL West division titles. The organization has reared several Hall of...

...setting a new rookie record with 49 home runs in '87; Shoeless Joe Jackson batting .408 in his rookie season in '11; Al Simmons banging out 253 hits in '25; Hank Greenberg blasting 63 doubles in '34; Hal Trosky compiling 405 total bases in '36 and Tommy...

Baseball players are in the public eye and leave much bigger legacies than regular schmucks you like and me, and if they’re lucky enough that legacy will be a positive one. Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Reggie Jackson, Aaron Boone, David Cone, Bernie...

Jeff Burroughs was born that year; he did win an MVP award, although he's not a Hall of Fame player, either. It is a very unusual thing to have five right fielders of that quality born in one year. To get another right fielder like that born before...

Neither man looks to be an imposing physical specimen, but what Guidry did in 1978 and what Rivera has done for his career are astounding. I learned about miracles from Bucky Dent’s home run in Fenway, Aaron Boone’s home run in New York and Reggie...

Padres manager Bud Black. It was the only bad pitch Black threw that night, as he led the Royals to an easy 10-1 win over Jackson’s Angels. That shot, though, made Jackson the 13th member of the 500 home run club. There are currently 25 members, so...