Tony Conigliaro

The youngest MLB home run champion, Tony Conigliaro hit the most homers by a teenager and is the youngest in AL history to hit 100 HRs.
Read More >The youngest MLB home run champion, Tony Conigliaro hit the most homers by a teenager and is the youngest in AL history to hit 100 HRs.
Read More >Vic Wertz is a four-time all star who finished in the American League’s top ten in homers seven times; he received MVP votes in five seasons.
Read More >From 1936-1942 Dolph Camilli posted a .941 OPS and 152 OPS+; he received MVP votes in 7 seasons and earned the award in 1941.
Read More >Two-time All Star center fielder Jimmy Piersall earned a pair of Gold Gloves and tallied 1,604 career hits despite battling bipolar disorder.
Read More >Gavy Cravath hit 24 home runs in 1915 – as many as 12 of the other 15 MLB teams; the total established a 20th-century record for homers in a single season.
Read More >Every paycheck Don Zimmer ever received was from professional baseball; in 2015 the Tampa Bay Rays retired jersey #66 in his honor.
Read More >The 1979 AL MVP, Don Baylor had 2,135 hits & 338 homers in his 19-year playing career; when he retired he held the post-1900 record for HBP.
Read More >In the 2012 World Series, Pablo Sandoval tied a record in Game 1 by hitting 3 homers – two off of Justin Verlander; he was named the Series MVP.
Read More >The 2011 Rookie of the Year, Craig Kimbrel is a seven-time All Star who led the National League in saves each of his first four full seasons.
Read More >Three-time All Star Bobby Thomson hit “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World” to win the pennant for the Giants. He also had eight 20-homer seasons.
Read More >"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball…"
~Jacques Barzun, 1954