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Moments
The games, seasons, records, and firsts that defined baseball
The 2004 Red Sox and the Greatest Comeback in Postseason History
May 17, 2026
No team in MLB history had ever come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a best-of-seven series. The 2004 Red Sox did it against the Yankees, then swept the Cardinals to end the 86-year Curse of the Bambino.
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Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard Round the World
May 17, 2026
On October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth to win the pennant. Fifty years later, the 1951 Giants confirmed they had been stealing signs all season.
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Carlton Fisk Waved It Fair
May 17, 2026
Game 6 of the 1975 World Series is widely considered the greatest baseball game ever played. It ended when Carlton Fisk hit a fly ball toward the left field foul pole and waved it fair with his hands.
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Mazeroski's Walk-Off and the Game 7 They Found in a Wine Cellar
May 17, 2026
On October 13, 1960, Bill Mazeroski hit the only walk-off home run in a Game 7 in World Series history. The NBC broadcast was lost for decades until a copy was found in Bing Crosby's wine cellar.
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Willie Mays, Vic Wertz, and the Catch
May 17, 2026
On September 29, 1954, Willie Mays turned his back to the plate and ran 425 feet to catch Vic Wertz's drive at the Polo Grounds. It remains the most famous defensive play in baseball history.
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The Season That Stopped
May 10, 2026
On August 12, 1994, major league baseball players walked off the field. They didn't come back for 232 days. The World Series was cancelled for the first time since 1904, and the sport lost a generation of fans.
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Amherst, Williams, and the First Intercollegiate Baseball Game
May 9, 2026
Amherst and Williams met in Pittsfield on July 1, 1859 in what historians generally recognize as the first intercollegiate baseball game in the United States, played under Massachusetts rules and won by Amherst 73-32.
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John Rhea Smith and Baseball's Earliest Known U.S. Mention in 1786
May 9, 2026
A March 22, 1786 diary entry by Princeton student John Rhea Smith is the earliest known handwritten U.S. mention of baseball, decades before the Knickerbocker rules.
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The Miracle Mets of 1969
May 8, 2026
The 1969 New York Mets went from the worst franchise in baseball history to World Series champions in seven years. Nobody saw it coming, and the story still resists rational explanation.
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The Black Sox Scandal: Eight Men Out
May 5, 2026
Eight Chicago White Sox players conspired with gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series. The scandal nearly destroyed professional baseball and produced lifetime bans that stood for more than a century.
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The Called Shot and What Really Happened in Game 3
May 1, 2026
October 1, 1932. Game 3 of the World Series. Babe Ruth steps to the plate at Wrigley Field and does something that baseball has argued about for nearly a century.
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The Gotham Club Era, 1840 to 1843
April 30, 2026
Before the Knickerbockers wrote their famous 1845 rules, New York's Gotham club and its offshoots had already been organizing games, grounds, and procedures for nearly a decade.
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An Early Organized Base Ball Association in 1823 New York
April 30, 2026
A newspaper notice from April 1823 places an organized base ball association on Broadway in Manhattan, two full decades before the Knickerbockers wrote their rules.
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William Wheaton and the 1837 Rules
April 30, 2026
In 1887, an aging New York lawyer named William Wheaton told a San Francisco newspaper that he had written the laws of baseball fifty years earlier. The document has never been found, but the claim reshaped how historians understand the game before the Knickerbockers.
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The Knickerbocker Rules and When Baseball Started Looking Modern
April 26, 2026
On September 23, 1845, the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York adopted twenty written rules that helped transform scattered local games into a sport clubs could share, copy, and argue over in public.
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