Lou Brock

I don't want to sound like one of those annoying relatives you try to avoid at the holidays, the one who always has one of those ''In my day, we'd walk 20 miles in four feet of snow without any boots just to ...'' stories. But I'll use a story from my...

What the Philadelphia Phillies needed, wanted, desperately had to have in this World Series was a big hit with runners in scoring position. What they got was a little one, a dribbler down the third-base line that barely made it 30 feet before it was...

| There wasn't one solid swing of the bat in the bottom of the ninth inning. No hits worth bragging about. No at-bats anyone would call impressive. Yet the Phillies managed to load the bases and score the decisive run in their 5-4 victory over the Tampa...

Here, in the one place charged with immortalizing baseball's feats and achievements, the biggest record of them all doesn't seem to exist this weekend. Here, in the No Barry Zone, steroids are unimaginable and controversy nonexistent. Here, we choose...

Player, Year, Cast, Votes, Pct. Tom Seaver 1992 430 425 98.84 Nolan Ryan 1999 497 491 98.79 Cal Ripken Jr. 2007 545 537 98.53 Ty Cobb 1936 226 222 98.23 George Brett 1999 497 488 98.19 Hank Aaron 1982 415 406 97.83 Tony Gwynn 2007 545 532 97.61...

Hank Aaron, of, 1982 Ernie Banks, ss-1b, 1977 Johnny Bench, c, 1989 Wade Boggs, 3b. 2005 George Brett, 3b, 1999 Lou Brock, of, 1985 Rod Carew, 2b-1b, 1991 Steve Carlton, p, 1994 Ty Cobb, of, 1936 Dennis Eckersley, p, 2004 Bob Feller, p, 1962...

What's the Curse of the Billy Goat? It started during the 1945 World Series, which pitted the Cubs against the Detroit Tigers. The Cubs refused to let Billy Goat Tavern owner William Sianis bring his lucky goat inside Wrigley Field for Game 4. An angry...

The Cubs in the World Series? I didn't want to take a chance at waiting to write about it. Who knows how long the Cubs playoff push will last? While the dream is alive, I thought I would explore Cubs World Series story, albeit a brief one. It seems...

Rickey Henderson is back in uniform and on a major-league roster, albeit in the coaches section. But we all know being the Mets hitting coach is not his first choice of an occupation. All year he's been saying he thinks he can still play in the majors,...

Predict the future: What do you think will happen with the Bulls as the trading deadline passes us by? --Scott, Chicago I'm having them post this early since Thursday is the trading deadline and my legion of assistants---we can all call ourselves Bulls'...

The Cubs called up their latest, greatest future star Tuesday to replace the injured Alfonso Soriano, who tweaked his hamstring last night. However, , thank you very much. I know it's early, but the Soriano in center field experiment appears to be a dud....

Though he was part of a famed Orioles rotation that featured four 20-game winners in the same season, Pat Dobson tended to go through his baseball life unrecognized. Or mistaken for someone else. Former teammate Jim Palmer remembers a fan in spring...