Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The stigma had diminished by the early 1960s and by one estimate 20 percent of major league players wore glasses by the end of the 1970s. [1] [3] The development of shatter-resistant lenses in the latter half of the 1940s contributed to their acceptance. [4] The first major-league player to wear spectacles was Will 'Whoop-La' White in 1878–86.
Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash following the 1972 season. This is a list of baseball players who died during their careers. While some of these deaths occurred during a game, the majority were the result of accidents off the field, illnesses, acts of violence, or suicide. Repeated studies have shown that contemporary Major League ...
The American baseball player for the Phillies died after being removed from a train while drunk, falling off International Bridge, and going over Niagara Falls. Delahanty reportedly downed five shots of whiskey , broke into a fire axe case, attempted to shove over a partition, and allegedly grabbed a woman's ankles and tried to pull her out of ...
Loaded 0%. Tragedy struck this week in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, when a 19-year-old college baseball player died Wednesday from injuries sustained when a makeshift dugout fell on him Monday. Angel ...
A college baseball player died after he was struck in the face when a makeshift dugout he was helping to dismantle collapsed on him this week. Angel Mercado, 19, was a middle infielder who had ...
2006. Vote. 76.9% (13th ballot) Howard Bruce Sutter ( / ˈsuːtər /; January 8, 1953 – October 13, 2022) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1976 and 1988. He was one of the sport's dominant relievers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, making effective use of the split ...
The Detroit Tigers kicked off the 2024 season of spring training in Lakeland, Florida, on Valentine's Day, the first official day for the pitchers and catchers to report for practice.
Fred Clifford Clarke (October 3, 1872 – August 14, 1960) was an American Major League Baseball player from 1894 to 1915 and manager from 1897 to 1915. A Hall of Famer, Clarke played for and managed both the Louisville Colonels and Pittsburgh Pirates. He was a left fielder and left-handed batter.