Four Strikeouts — A Baseball Rarity
June 4, 2010 by Mark Ahrens
Filed under Baseball History, Statistics and Analysis
With the incredible string of recent Perfect Games, including the one (almost) thrown by Armando Galarraga, we may have missed a similarly rare baseball occurrence–Four Strikeouts. We are not talking about a batter striking out four times in a game; that inglorious feat is called a Golden Sombrero. We are referring to a pitcher recording four strikeouts in [...]
Top 10 Baseball Songs of All Time
June 1, 2010 by Mark Ahrens
Filed under "Best of" Lists, Miscellaneous
Last week, Books on Baseball posted an article suggesting Centerfield by John Fogerty might be the best baseball song of all time. The reaction to that article was wonderful. You provided many other song suggestions as “the best”. To followup, we decided to compile a BoB Top 10 Best Baseball Song list.
To do this, we have gone [...]
