Kevin Baker’s The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City shares colorful tales of the early days on the diamond, ...

With two on and none out in the top of the eighth inning of the opening game of the 1954 World Series, left-handed reliever Don Liddle took the mound for New York Giants starter Sal Maglie to face ...

1954 — Willie ... runs scored against the New York Mets. A back injury ended his baseball career the next season. 1976 — John Montefusco of the San Francisco Giants pitched a 9-0 no-hitter ...

1954 Willie Mays ... 4 runs scored against the New York Mets. A back injury ended his baseball career the next season. 1976 John Montefusco of the San Francisco Giants pitched a 9-0 no-hitter ...

30 (UPI) --The San Francisco Giants hired franchise legend Buster Posey as their president of baseball operations ... helping the New York Yankees overcome a rare imperfect outing from pitcher ...

Phillies for their only World Series victory of the 21st Century, compared to four for the Boston Red Sox. Once known as the Bronx Bombers, the Yankees won 26 Series titles in the 20th Century.

Sam Smith was in the Polo Grounds, he saw the New York Mets. As Lloyd Bentsen might have said, the Chicago White Sox are no ...

By Richard Goldstein Ozzie Virgil Sr., who became the first Dominican native in major league baseball when he played third base for the New York Giants in 1956, and who took the field two years ...

That’s when the Brooklyn Dodgers forsook New York ... baseball. By 1957, Robinson had retired, however, and Dodgers’ owner Walter O’Malley – along with his New York Giants counterpart ...

Advertisement But also, being Buster Posey, it was important to him to be respectful to Farhan Zaidi, the Giants’ president of baseball operations ... contract as a New York Yankees special ...

2001 — Seattle’s Ichiro Suzuki set the major league rookie record for hits in a season but the Mariners fell to Oakland 8-4. Suzuki got his 234th hit, breaking the previous rookie mark set by Shoeless ...