New York Yankees

American baseball icon Hank Aaron, nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank," is widely regarded as one of the greatest hitters in the history of the sport. He spent 21 years as an outfielder for the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves and two final years as a DH for the Milwaukee Brewers, setting several records and winning a number of honors along the way. Aron continues to hold many of baseball's most distinguished records today, including runs batted in (2,297), extra-base hits (1,477), total bases (6,856) and…

The Atlanta Braves have been based in Atlanta, Georgia since the year 1966. They a professional major league baseball team that competes in the National League's Eastern Division. Between the years of 1991 and 2005, the Atlanta Braves won their division each year. It is the longest record of any North American professional sport. In addition, the Atlanta Braves have the distinction of having won over a dozen divisional titles, nine pennants, and three World Series. The history of the Braves…

What would happen if Major League Baseball held a league-wide draft where every player in each organization became available and each General Manager could choose a total of five players to steal from other teams; but if two GMs selected the same player, he would remain with his current team and GMs were not allowed to communicate with each other? Earlier this year, SB Nation conducted this game theory simulation by having 30 of their writers act as the GMs for each team. The most intriguing…

Catcher-Gabby Hartnett The Cubs greatest catcher is Gabby Hartnett, who represented the Cubs in the first six All-Start Games. His career with the Cubs spanned 19 years, from 1922 to 1940. He is the 1935 National League MVP and has 1,867 hits, 231 home runs, and 1,153 RBI. Gabby was the catcher when Babe Ruth infamously called his shot in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series. First Base-Mark Grace For first base, it’s Mark Grace hands down. During the ‘steroid era’ of the 1990’s, went unscathed,…

No one thought that Chad Bradford would make his high school team. Bradford did. No one thought that Bradford would do well in a hitters ballpark. Bradford did. No one thought that Bradford would become a reliable reliever in the big leagues. Bradford became one. I found out about Chad Bradford in July of 2005 when the Boston Red Sox acquired him from the Oakland Athletics for an outfielder by the name of Jay Payton. I found out more about him from the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an…

recent years, the issue of baseball and softball bat Performance has attracted considerable interest among players, the regulating associations, an even scientist”. (Nathan, Crisco, Greenwald, Russell, and Smith., 2004) The Interest is a result of new technology that have produced bats that perform better than the traditional wooden bat. However, the actual “pop” in bats is a bit of a mystery. Pop is the measurement of how fast the ball jumps off the bat. A bat with more pop would give all…

Cats VS Crows 53 thousand middle aged drunk blokes jumping out of their seats howling at the umpires to give the boys a free. This is the atmosphere that I am most familiar with. Usually the winter weekends begin with an hour long train ride into the city along with the agonising hope that the train will go express to Adelaide. “Ding”, a rush of red, blue and yellow rush out the doors. My dad and I squeeze through the electric crowds on the way to the oval, it is difficult not to smile with…

longest tenured general manager in the MLB. Many sources, including people in his own organization stated that Sabean had “old school” methods of running the organization; yet, he always kept new school people around him to keep up with changes, trends, and methods in society. The organization adapted to new things, but still kept their same…

Last year, the New York Mets ran away with the National League East. The Mets captured the division by seven games over the second place Washington Nationals. However, it wasn't always smooth sailing for the Mets in 2015 as the Nationals held the division lead heading into the last year’s All-Star break. 

New York Mets

After winning the division in 2015, the Mets made a deep run in the playoffs. New York made it all the way to the World Series before the eventual World Series Champion Kansas…

News Headlines on My Birthday I was born on June 8, 1995, in Charleston, South Carolina. If I could go back in time to that day and pick up a newspaper, I would learn about what was happening in the world on the day I was born. The Science section of The New York Times on June 7, 1995 featured a story about Astronaut Dr. Norman E. Thagard breaking the United States space endurance record. Astronaut Thagard broke the record by staying on Mir, Russia’s space station, for 84 days. Russia’s space…