National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum8 年
Mike Piazza
Mike Piazza went from 62nd round draft pick to becoming one of the greatest hitting catchers in the game's history. Mike Piazza went from 62nd round draft pick to becoming one of the greatest hitting ...
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum8 年
Hall of Famers By Election Method
The Hall of Fame is comprised of 346 elected members. Included are 273 former major league players, 40 executives/pioneers, 23 managers and 10 umpires. The BBWAA has elected 139 candidates to the Hall ...
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum10 年
Tom Glavine
Tom Glavine's resume includes two Cy Young Awards, five seasons of 20-or-more wins and the 1995 World Series MVP. Tom Glavine's resume includes two Cy Young Awards, five seasons of 20-or-more wins and ...
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum8 年
The Negro National League is Founded
African Americans played baseball – and played the game at a very high level – since the game spread across American territories during the Civil War. But many of those talented players would likely ...
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum13 年
Willie Stargell
Willie Stargell was a feared power hitter and a leader on the field and in the clubhouse during his 21 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Willie Stargell was a feared power hitter and a leader on ...
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum4 年
Marvin Miller
The business of baseball, with some minor exceptions, was largely controlled by management for almost 100 years. Marvin Miller changed that. Miller served as the executive director for the Major ...
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum11 年
Hank Greenberg
Despite losing four prime seasons to World War II and another to a fractured wrist, Hank Greenberg still walloped 331 home runs. Despite losing four prime seasons to World War II and another to a ...
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum9 年
Ann Meyers Drysdale remembers her Hall of Fame husband
Ann Meyers Drysdale is forever at home in Cooperstown. But the widow of Hall of Famer Don Drysdale is also very familiar to fans of March Madness – as one of the greatest female basketball players in ...
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum12 年
Kenesaw Landis
In the wake of the Black Sox scandal, in which players of the Chicago White Sox were accused of fixing the 1919 World Series, baseball was in need of a leader who could regain the public’s faith in ...
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum4 年
Jimmie Foxx
"If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was (Jimmie) Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else.” – Bill Dickey Jimmie Foxx, the powerful Sudlersville, Md., farm boy, ...
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum1 年
Ozzie Smith
Known as “The Wizard of Oz,” Ozzie Smith combined athletic ability with acrobatic skill to become one of the greatest defensive shortstops of all time. Known as “The Wizard of Oz,” Ozzie Smith ...