If baseball had its way in the mid-1960s, the birthdays and anniversaries of the biggest expansion class in the game’s history wouldn’t happen for another couple of years. The Kansas City Royals are ...

The Redmen will be led into the 1969 season by two All New England players, shortstop and co-captain, Joe DiSarcina, and outfielder, Bob Hansen. Joe played brilliantly the past two years and has hit ...

In 1900, there was no such thing as air conditioners, movies, corn flakes or bubble gum. But somehow, in baseball, we consider 1900 to be part of the "modern" era. You couldn't listen to a game on a ...

See photos from the 1969 Mets World Series Championship Parade and celebrations in Citi Field, taking place on Saturday, June 29, 2019. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke Mets 1969 World Series ...

The similarities are striking, what with the dominant pitching, the dramatically clutch hitting and the joyful element of surprise. You can't help but notice that the 2015 Mets have raised echoes of ...

Complete games have become rarer for modern pitchers than balks. Starting pitchers haven’t necessarily gotten worse ó or better ó but their role has definitely changed. No pitcher on Rowan County’s ...

Courtesy photo Members of the 1969 undefeated Altoona Area High School baseball team include (from left): First row--Steve Sauers, Paul Hargreaves (deceased), Bob Ramazzotti (deceased), Ralph Williams ...

A look at the championship team captured in the 1969 Topps Baseball set. By Jay Schreiber Tom Seaver won the rookie of the year award in 1967, finishing 16-13 for a Mets team that was still nowhere ...

Although his major league career was brief, the pitcher claimed an unlikely World Series ring in his rookie season with the ...

Casey Stengel always said the Mets would win when they put a man on the Moon. Both miracles happened in 1969. The whole world didn’t stop on July 20, 1969, when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the ...