—Davey Johnson’s exuberance was legendary — he “jumped for joy in the dugout when the ball went through Bill Buckner’s legs” in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. Johnson was everywhere in Major League Baseball from the mid-1980s through the 2000s. The former Mets, Reds, Orioles, Dodgers and Nationals died Friday in Florida at…
Two Cleveland Guardians pitchers were placed on leave in July due to a gambling investigation by MLB, with minimal media coverage.
For sometime in the baseball card collecting world there have been pre-war 1880-1939 era cards and then everything else. For me, it’s now 1980’s through whenever anyone started watching out-of-market games on an MLB.TV subscription. The baseball fan in the 80’s and 90’s simply never saw certain players play on Saturday afternoons, the only time…