Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1958 — Canadian born Willie O’Ree becomes the NHL’s first black player for the Boston Bruins. 1972 — The Lakers’ Jerry West, hits a ...
While you might not look at Dustin Pedroia and immediately think “Hall of Famer,” the former Red Sox star has a better case for Cooperstown than you might realize. Interestingly, he has a pretty close ...
The Red Sox and Walker Buehler: The Red Sox jumped back into the MLB offseason headlines with a Monday morning report that Boston is once ... face the Magic in Orlando at 7 p.m. Another look ...
The Cincinnati Royals’ 22-year-old rookie sensation, Oscar Robertson, becomes the youngest player to receive NBA All-Star MVP honors. Robertson scores 23 points and hands out 14 ...
We also lost members of the Royals community in 2024. James Douglas Bird was from southern California and was drafted out of ...
The world of MLB paused to remember eleven-year Puerto Rican baseball veteran Felix Mantilla, as it was announced that he ...
He finished his career with 3,055 hits over 25 seasons spent with Oakland, the Yankees, Toronto, San Diego, Anaheim, the New York Mets, Seattle, Boston and the Los Angeles Dodgers. He fittingly ...
Zimmerman/Sports Illustrated The Heart of a Giant: Orlando Cepeda and San Francisco fell ... Mets, Mariners, Red Sox, Dodgers), AL MVP, ALCS MVP, 10-time All-Star, three-time Silver Slugger ...
Boston Red Sox or San Francisco Giants vs ... His cousin, Wellington Cepeda, is the manager of Gigantes de Cibao, the last team to win a LIDOM title before Licey’s current reign.
One of baseball’s first great Puerto Rican players, Cepeda rose from humble origins ... the Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates and California Angels.
The Boston Red Sox are still in the mix for Teoscar Hernandez, but they have not “intensified their efforts” to land the Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder, according to Chris Cotilllo of MassLive ...