#OTD On June 22, 2021, Jacob de Grom's ERA+ (adjusted to league average) was 777. A league-average ERA earns a pitcher a mark of 100. Pedro Martinez in 2000 registered the best ever for a season of 100 or more games with 291.

At auction now: Uncut Panel of 1926 W512 Strip Cards Featuring Babe Ruth.

The hero with a thousand faces--that of every man of color to enter MLB since 1947. Below, Jackie Robinson on April 17, 1946.

Ian Happ with a Classic Baserunning move. 🤣 Screw retouching 2B... I'm gonna cut across the infield.

While no photo has yet turned up of the Union Street Park, home of the Wilmington Quicksteps (Union Association, 1884), this snippet may suffice. Located on the SW corner of Front and Union Streets, a rural area on the edge of town. (Front St. was later named Lancaster Ave.)

In an odd way, the Covid Summer of 2020, with its shortened @mlb schedule of 60 games, played a role in the decision to absorb Negro Leagues stats of 1920-1948 into the historical record. If we could count the stats from 2020 (or 1877-1878), why not these? cbsnews.com/news/ken-burns…

Hail and farewell, Dave Parker.

When did the New York Yankees not play a home game in one of NYC's boroughs (they began in Manhattan, moved to the Bronx, and called Queens their home for a while)? On July 17, 1904--a Sunday, when ball play was banned in NYC--they played in Newark. sabr.org/bioproj/park/w…

Dear Philip Glass : Heard your Mad Rush performed today by Régis Rousseau at St. Germain Des Prés in Paris today and it was one of the most beautiful musical experiences of my life.

The banned “Dead Loop” of Olga Korbut in the 1972 Olympics. It was the first and last time the trick was documented.

Only player to throw a perfect game in 12 year history of the AAGPBL, hurled a no-hitter the next season. Annabelle Lee passed on her pitching knowledge to a nephew, gave him his first left-handed glove, and became one of the biggest influences in his life. He grew up to become a

"The dreams are that you're gonna have a great series and win. The nightmares are that you're gonna let the winning run score on a ground ball through your legs. Those things happen, you know. I think a lot of it is just fate. Mistakes are a part of life, but it's how we learn

Jigger Statz was a 4000-hit man, but this story is about his glove. Next entry in the series, "The Greatest Plays You Never Saw." ourgame.mlblogs.com/jigger-statz-m…

Summer of 1979- I show up to 3 Rivers Stadium as I did every summer to take over dad’s locker to shag fly balls and catch in the bullpen during games… I was 13 this year. Pops sees me and my new Afro, and says “your father would never let you have that long of hair we need to

Brooklyn's Capitoline Grounds was not only home park for the Atlantics in 1872 but also hosted a balloon ascension in 1873. The ballpark had been a skating pond in 1862 and was made into a ballpark three years later. The 1865 ticket is, imho, the game's first to survive.