History of Baseball 

Henry (Hank) Aaron was one of the greatest players in Major League Baseball history. Born to a poor family in Mobile, Alabama with seven siblings, Hank overcame the odds and became a Hall-of-Fame player. He hit 755 home runs (a record for many years before being broken by Barry Bonds), drove in 2,297 runs (still a record as of 2020),...

Terry Whitfield is not a household name, but he was a heck of a hitter in the Major Leagues and the Japanese Pacific League for most of the 1970s and 1980s. Terry's career batting average in the MLB was .281, in the Minors it was .286 and in Japan it was .289. He was never a superstar in the States,...

My first full-time high school coaching job was with a school called Crawford High School in San Diego. Crawford had once been one of the traditional powers of the old city league decades before, but had long since fallen upon hard times as a baseball program. More than 15 years have passed since Crawford had a winning season, and in...

In the 1990s there was a team called the Colorado Silver Bullets, they were sponsored by a beer company and played against amateur all-star teams and semi-pro teams. At first they did not enjoy much success, but after a few years they were able to put together a winning record before losing their sponsorship and folding. The team was...