There are few more qualified to speak on baseball and how much it’s changed over the past half century than longtime play-by-play announcer Jon Miller. Miller, who got his start as a major league ...
1974 — The Cincinnati Reds defeated the Atlanta Braves 7-6 in 11 innings before a crowd of 52,000 at Riverfront Stadium. In his first at-bat, Hank Aaron hit a three-run homer off Jack Billingham. It ...
The Northern Colorado baseball program will honor the 1974 College World Series team along with nine seniors graduating this year before the Bears’ final home weekend series against Summit League ...
Despite winning both the 1972 and 1973 World Series, the 1974 Oakland Athletics weren't really favored to do it again. After all, only one club in Major League Baseball had ever won three straight ...
Back in the spring of 1974 the Ithaca baseball team put together a season to be remembered and on Saturday they remembered. On Saturday morning over a dozen players from the 1974 Ithaca High School ...
In January 1974, McDonald’s mogul Ray Kroc bought the San Diego Padres baseball franchise from local financier C. Arnholt Smith for $12 million. Forty-five years ago, the 5-year-old expansion team was ...
Players and coaches from the Roseto 1974 Northampton County American Legion Baseball League Championship team gathered recently at Roseto Ballpark for a 40-year reunion. The players included Anthony ...
The Hug High baseball team went 1-23-1 this season, hit .192 as a team and posted a 9.96 ERA. Last year, the team went 3-22-1. And four years ago, the Hawks posted a 3-21 record. Since the school ...
It was almost 41 years ago and I wasn’t even 10 but my grandmother surprised my brother and me, taking us to Atlanta-Fulton Stadium on April 8, 1974. The significance was obvious, even at my age, and ...
Whether aluminum or wood, a bat can make all the difference. It has for college baseball players since the first aluminum bats were introduced in 1974. Professional coaches commonly refer to players ...
A line drive is always a tricky thing. As an 11-year-old Little League first baseman, that was a truth I knew from experience. Sometimes they shot off the bat with such ferocity that it tested my ...