Recently added articles from Baseball Digest:

The fans speak out.

Aug 01, 2008; Refling, Fred ... In the June issue, there was a listing in the letters section of pitching teammates with the most combined victories in one season (the combined wins ranged from a high of 68 to a low of 50). It made me think of the 1968 Tigers and Denny McLain. That year, McLain won 31 games ....

Players with most hits per game.(Table)

Aug 01, 2008 ... <Pre> Players With Most Hits Per Game (Minimum of 2,000 hits) + Active Players' stats through 2007 Player Games HitsH/G Ed Delahanty1,835 2,596 1.41471 Willie Keeler 2,123 2,932 1.38106 Ty Cobb ...

Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Chicago White Sox October 1, 1959 at Comiskey Park.(Box Score)

Aug 01, 2008 ... <Pre> Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Chicago White Sox October 1, 1959 at Comiskey Park Los Angeles Dodgers Player, Pos. AllR HRBI Jim Gilliam, 3b 4 0 1 0 Charlie Neal, 2b4 0 2 0 Wally Moon, lf 4 0 1 ...

Triple crown winning pitchers.

Aug 01, 2008 ... SINCE 1900, THERE HAVE BEEN 19 DIFFERENT MAJOR LEAGUE PITCHERS WHO HAVE LEO THEIR LEAGUE IN WINS, STRIKE-OUTS and ERA in the same season, a feat that has been accomplished 30 times. Grover Alexander did it four times while Walter Johnson and Sandy Koufax achieved the feat three times. ...

San Francisco Giants vs. New York Mets May 31, 1964 at Shea Stadium.(Box Score)

Aug 01, 2008 ... <Pre> San Francisco Giants vs. New York Mets May 31, 1964 at Shea Stadium San Francisco Giants Player, Pos. All R H RBI Harvey Kuenn, lf 5 1 0 0 Gaylord Perry, p 3 0 0 0 Del Crandall, ph 1 ...

Instant replay in baseball: has its pros and cons.(Warm Up Tosses)

Aug 01, 2008; Kuenster, John ... HIS YOUNGER DAYS, JOCKO CONLAN, THE LATE HALL OF FAME UMPIRE, WAS A popular after-dinner speaker at various sporting functions in the Chicago area. And, occasionally, he would amuse his audience with a favorite story about the difficulty of making the right call on the field. ...

Chipper Jones best switch-hitter of his era: batting higher than .300 with goodpower, braves slugger challenges pitchers from both sides of the plate.(Cover story)

Aug 01, 2008; Rogers, Carroll ... THE IDEA WAS BORN BEFORE Chipper Jones was, when the "old block" was just a chip himself. Larry Wayne Jones Sr. was a kid in Baltimore when he fell in love with the switch-hitting Yankee Mickey Mantle. He saw the power Mantle could generate left-handed from the right field ...

Lance Berkman sustained excellence at the plate: Astros first baseman's consistency ranks him as one of the game's elite players and among the majors' top switch-hitters.

Aug 01, 2008; Justice, Richard ... LANCE BERKMAN DOESN'T DRINK or swear, drives a Ford F-150, and has a wardrobe that s mostly jeans and boots. His idea of a perfect day is to spend a morning doing chores on his Brenham ranch and an afternoon watching college football. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Stars who played: entire careers with one team: they include such notable performers as Brooks Robinson, Mike Schmidt, Ted Williams, Craig Biggio and Cal Ripken.

Aug 01, 2008; Vass, George ... IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER OR not the 3,060 base hits Craig Biggio banged out during a 20-year major league career stretching from 1988 through 2007 assure him of first ballot election to the Hall of Fame when he's eligible a half decade from now. It's indisputable however ...

Nate McLouth: getting big league attention in Pittsburgh: starting the season with a 19-game hitting streak and producing as Pirates' center fielder, he's getting noticed around the majors.

Aug 01, 2008; Langosch, Jenifer ... NATE McLOUTH CARRIES HIMSELF as unpretentiously as anyone in the Pirates clubhouse. A starting center field job hasn't changed that. Neither did a major league-best 19-game hitting streak to begin the season. Nor did finishing April as one of baseball's best. Neither will ...

Carlos Quentin: a diamond in the rough for White Sox: Chicago outfielder has impressed teammates, fans and management with his early season contributions and drive to be successful.

Aug 01, 2008; Merkin, Scott ... FOR NUMEROUS WHITE SOX FANS who frequent message boards or fan sites illustrating the intense passion and support shown for their organization, they know a nickname has been bestowed on the team's young left field sensation based on an interview with general manager Ken Williams last ...

Shattering maple bats: raising concerns in the majors: alarming rate of splintered wood flying around ball parks this season has put players, coaches, umpires and fans on alert to avoid injury.

Aug 01, 2008; van Dyck, Dave ... EVERY BASEBALL PLAYER SEEMS TO have a story about a close call with the game's newest nemesis, the airborne bat barrel. "Second game of the year in Cleveland," White Sox reliever Matt Thornton recalled. "I threw the pitch, snapped the bat in half. The ball was coming toward me ...

Baseball quick quiz.

Aug 01, 2008 ... Collect ten points for each question answered correctly. Answers on page 90 (If you score 80 or better, you are a baseball expert, 70 or better, superior; between 60 and 70, good, and between 40 and 60, average. 1. There are only three players who have hit 200 or more career ...

Rick Sutcliffe: a winner on and off the mound: former Rookie of the year, Cy Young winner and All-Star spreads a positive influence as he endures a bout with cancer.

Aug 01, 2008; Reiter, Bill ... RICK SUTCLIFFE STOOD ON THE fine green grass outside his Lee's Summit home in Missouri, smiling and waving and looking stronger than he should. When he commanded a major league pitcher's mound, they called him the Red Baron. Now his red hair had faded, but the 6-foot-7 physique ...

Brian Bannister uses smarts to succeed in majors: Royals right-hander tries to prove his doubters wrong by putting his intelligence to the test in getting batters out.

Aug 01, 2008; Posnanski, Joe ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ALL OFF-SEASON, BRIAN Bannister worked the umbers. It's what he does. Sure, number crunching may seem a strange way to respond to baseball doubters. But that's Banny. He cannot blow his pitches past hitters. He calculates the ball by them. He ...

Omar Vizquel pursues Hall of Fame recognition: despite a record number of games at shortstop, 11 Gold Gloves and productive numbers as a hitter, some question his ranking.

Aug 01, 2008; Schulman, Henry ... OMAR VIZQUEL IS A GRAB BAG OF surprises and no doubt will be until the day he cedes his territory on the left side of the infield for good and enters his new life as a painter or sculptor or musician or bon vivant at large. Last May 25, Vizquel passed Luis Aparicio's all-time ...

Baseball profile: Ken Griffey, Jr.--Cincinnati Reds.(Interview)

Aug 01, 2008; Sorci, Rick ... FULL NAME: George Kenneth Griffey, Jr. AGE, HT., WT: 38, 6-3, 205 BORN: November 21, 1969 in Donora, Pennsylvania HOME: Orlando, Florida STATUS/FAMILY: Married NICKNAME: Junior LIFE OUTSIDE OF BASEBALL: It's mostly with ...

Elston Howard, a valuable part of Yankee world series teams: former catcher was a major contributor offensively, defensively, with the pitching staff and in the clubhouse.(Turn Back The Clock ...)

Aug 01, 2008; Schultz, Randy ... "ELSTON HOWARD. HE COULD do it all. He could catch. He could play first base and the outfield. "He was a solid batter who could hit for power and drive in runs. He had all the tools. "It really makes me wonder sometimes where the New York Yankees might have been if ...

Braves' staff was the stuff of legends.(Baseball Notes ...)

Aug 01, 2008; Grant, Evan ... THE CORE OF ATLANTA'S ROTATION FROM 1993-2002 WERE. STILL MAKING CONTRIBUTIONS TO their clubs in 2008. John Smoltz recorded his 3,000th strikeout, all of them with Atlanta; Greg Maddux became the ninth pitcher to notch 350 career wins, and Tom Glavine's 305 victories were fourth all time ...

Rangers' Josh Hamilton off to a productive start.(Brief article)

Aug 01, 2008; Grant, Evan ... ONE OF THE FEW RANGERS TO PLAY IN 56 OF THE TEAM'S FIRST 57 GAMES THROUGH JUNE 1 is one Ranger who entered the season supposedly needing significant monitoring of various ailments. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] So far, so good for Josh Hamilton. "I think I ...