As with Whitney Houston and other entertainers of great acclaim, we measure our lives by the smiles they put on our lips and the joyous trips down memory lane, a path lighted by their gifts, to a place where not only they were great and young, but perhap

Cancer sucks. Carter’s single started that 10th inning rally. You will be missed, Kid. RIP Gary Carter, you will be missed. Cancer sucks. Carter’s single started that 10th inning rally. You will be missed, Kid. And what a rally it was. Legend. Great play

AP Photo/Duane Burleson Once upon a time, a pitcher would do anything to doctor a baseball By Jonah Keri on February 8, 2012 I t's Game 2 of the 2006 World Series, and Kenny Rogers has come out for warm-up tosses. It's a chilly 44 degrees in Detroit, the

LITTLE ROCK Radio is a personal medium. One broadcaster in a booth, speaking directly to thousands of listeners, can sound as if he’s speaking directly to you, and no one else. Great baseball broadcasters know this. All they need is a microphone and a v

One site I have long been a fan of is BrooksBaseball which has a lot of pitch f/x data, basically an encyclopedia of every MLB pitch thrown the past few seasons. They now have a new feature called "player cards" which basically gives you an entire databa

Carson Cistulli of NotGraphs posted an interview with Glenn Braggs in which Mr. Braggs discusses the famous incident of breaking a bat over his back in the 1990 World Series. Footage of said broken bat is included, along with Tim McCarver freaking the he

The Yankees enjoyed above average production from Paul O’Neill for the better part of a decade, but they had a bit of a hole in right field after his retirement following the 2001 season. They opened 2002 with Shane Spencer getting the majority of the pl

A year ago ago, I came across a curious find in my in-laws' house: The 1994 Rotisserie League Baseball Official Rule Book and Draft-Day Guide. My in-laws are not huge sports fans, so finding this in their possession was an oddity in and of itself. But be

Credit: Special to the Democrat Gazette Elmer “B” Lindsey is joined in this 1960 photograph by future St. Louis catcher Tim McCarver (left) as the two were getting ready for the Memphis Chicks’ season opener. Lindsey, who chose baseball over football, al

"I've looked at you a hundred times as you walked by, saying to myself: here is an energetic man who must go to the mines. I even studied your gait and decided: this man will find many mines." "From my gait, madame?" Mitya smiled. "And why not from your

By Tom Jones , Times Staff Writer Tom Jones Tampa Bay Times In Print: Saturday, January 21, 2012 tom jones' two cents The latest from the world of sports. Personality of the day When you think of the new breed of sports analysts, the two names that come

At the risk of sounding like an elitist, I consider myself a New Yorker – a New Yorker before I’m a writer, an American… before I’m even a human being. Perhaps you must be from here to understand that pride which borders on bloodlust for a time and a tow

FOX Sports Media Group Chairman David Hill knew Darrell Waltrip would be a major asset to the NASCAR on FOX team...NASCAR HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE WALTRIP STOLE HEARTS ON THE TRACK AND IN THE TELEVISION BOOTH SPEED Covers Induction of NASCAR’S Third Hall of

Former Reds great Barry Larkin, shortstop of the 1990 World Champions, the 1995 Most Valuable Player and the first shortstop in the 30-30 club (home runs/stolen bases in a single season, 1996) will be enshrined. The late Chicago Cubs third baseman Ron Sa

Browsing the internet as I am wont to do, I came across this via Joy of Sox. For those of you who might be clicking impaired, it's an article from Nikkansports.com, a Japanese website. There really isn't much point in clicking it anyway, as the article l

The broadcast is about him from the very first moment: as soon as the CBS logo has disappeared from the screen, the hosts are talking about his postseason success so far in the games leading up to this, Game 7 of the World Series, the biggest night on th

The world changed in the sixties. The New York Yankees entered the decade and promptly rattled off five straight pennants. As the country began to splinter, the Yankees collapsed. Meanwhile, pitching came to the forefront of the national pastime. In 1968

(Tampa Bay, FL) From the “What took you so long?” The soon to be Hall of Fame inducted baseball announcer, who is also a long time resident of Sarasota, has hosted a one-on-one

Our next guest here on the Tim McCarver Show will be Sal Volatile…and he’s coming on sooner than you think! ERA+ rates a pitcher’s ERA relative to his peers at the time, making slight adjustments based on the difficulty of pitching in the various ballpar