Any player can have a bad day. Even a future member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Brooks Robinson won 16 Gold Gloves during his 23-year career with the Baltimore Orioles from spanned from 1955-77. In 1971, Brooks needed a pick me up from teammate Frank Robinson and he got it on July 28 in […]
Category: 1970s Baseball History
It’s always fun listening to popular radio and television baseball announcer Duane Kuiper on the game broadcasts for San Francisco Giants. Kuiper was doing the TV broadcast when Barry Bonds hit his 756th home run in 2007, which is a bit ironic since the former second baseman only hit one long ball in his big […]
There’s an old superstition that “Good Things Come in Threes.” Ironically, Johnny Bench has experienced that three times in the home run department. Back in 1970, Bench hit three homers in a game for the first time in his career on July 26. He drove in seven runs that day as the Reds beat the […]
Growing up in the 1970s as a Cincinnati Reds fan was a wonderful time. It was like going to your grandmother’s house and being spoiled with whatever you wanted. However, when your favorite players were traded or went to another team and had success, it was like that family member who enjoyed stirring up trouble […]
Art Kusnyer was a baseball lifer. Kusnyer was longtime member of Tony La Russa‘s coaching staff when the Oakland A’s won the World Series in 1989. Beginning his career in 1966 as a 37th round draft pick by the Chicago White Sox. He made his major league debut in 1970 by appearing in four games. […]
One of the things that makes baseball special is family. Families are always in the stands, but there have been several times when brothers, fathers and sons have been on the diamond together. Tommie Aaron is one part of an answer to an old trivia question. What brothers have combined for the most lifetime home […]
As we prepare for the return of baseball, there will likely be a lot of strange happenings during the 2020 season. One of the things that fans have been used to and debating since 1973 is the designated hitter rule in the American League. However, when games resume in late July, the designated hitter will […]
Cincinnati’s Gary Nolan was one of the more important parts of the Big Red Machine back in the 1970s. Nolan was 15-9 during both of Cincinnati’s world championship seasons in 1975 and 1976. Overall, he was 110-67 in 10 seasons with the Reds from 1967-77. He missed all of the 1974 season with an arm […]
As a fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates you might be forgiven if you didn’t know the name Jim Nelson, who pitched one of the most important games at Forbes Field, which would close on June 28, 1970. The most famous moment in the history of Forbes Field was Bill Mazeroski‘s iconic seventh game walk-off homer […]
Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a three-part series about some unusual happenings during a baseball game. The first story in this series featured Texas Rangers shortstop Toby Harrah, while the second was about Baseball Hall of Fame member Lloyd Waner of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Norm Cash‘s unique part of history is similar […]