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Players, managers, owners, umpires, and broadcasters
Shohei Ohtani and the Player Who Shouldn't Exist
May 17, 2026
For a century, baseball operated on a simple principle. Pitchers pitch. Hitters hit. Shohei Ohtani does both at the highest level simultaneously, something nobody has done since Babe Ruth gave up pitching after 1919.
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April 15, 1947
May 7, 2026
Jackie Robinson walked onto Ebbets Field as the Brooklyn Dodgers' first baseman and broke a barrier that had held for more than sixty years. The game itself was almost beside the point.
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The Luckiest Man on the Face of This Earth
May 6, 2026
On July 4, 1939, Lou Gehrig stood at home plate in Yankee Stadium, dying of a disease that didn't yet carry his name, and told 61,808 people he considered himself the luckiest man alive.
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Bill Dahlen and the 42-Game Summer
May 4, 2026
In 1894, Bill Dahlen hit in 42 straight games, then started a 28-game streak the next day. A century later, his name is still a test of how baseball remembers its own history.
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Dock Ellis, June 12, 1970
May 4, 2026
Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter in San Diego on June 12, 1970, in a game he later said he pitched under LSD. The stat line is real, and so is the complicated life around it.
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Effa Manley Ran the Eagles
May 4, 2026
Effa Manley helped build the Newark Eagles into champions, fought for black baseball in public, and became the first woman elected to the Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Fernandomania Begins on Opening Day
May 4, 2026
Fernando Valenzuela's complete-game shutout on Opening Day 1981 launched Fernandomania and changed the relationship between the Dodgers and Los Angeles forever.
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715 in Atlanta
May 4, 2026
Hank Aaron's 715th home run on April 8, 1974 is one of baseball's defining moments, but the full weight of his career is in the consistency that got him there.
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Helene Britton Owned the Cardinals
May 4, 2026
Helene Britton became the first woman to own a major-league club in 1911, ran the Cardinals through financial and league pressure, and sold in 1918.
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Mariano Rivera and One Pitch
May 4, 2026
Mariano Rivera built a Hall of Fame career on a cutter everyone knew was coming, then proved in October that predictability and dominance can live in the same inning.
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Minnie Miñoso Opened the South Side
May 4, 2026
Minnie Miñoso broke the White Sox color barrier on May 1, 1951, became a South Side star, and helped define what a Latino superstar could look like in major-league baseball.
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Moe Berg, Catcher and Spy
May 4, 2026
Moe Berg played 15 major-league seasons, then worked for the OSS in World War II. His baseball resume was modest, but his life was anything but ordinary.
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Smoky Joe Wood's 1912 and the Second Career
May 4, 2026
Smoky Joe Wood won 34 games in 1912, looked like the era's next pitching giant, and then rebuilt his career as a position player after arm trouble changed everything.
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The Last Flight of Roberto Clemente
May 3, 2026
Roberto Clemente boarded a cargo plane on New Year's Eve 1972 to deliver earthquake relief supplies to Nicaragua. He never arrived.
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