Carroll Hardy

Meet the only man to pinch hit for Ted Williams. On Carroll Hardy’s 25th birthday he pinch hit for Maris and smashed an HR; he also pinch hit for Yaz.
Read More >Meet the only man to pinch hit for Ted Williams. On Carroll Hardy’s 25th birthday he pinch hit for Maris and smashed an HR; he also pinch hit for Yaz.
Read More >Remembered as the man who replaced Lou Gehrig on 5/2/1939 to end the streak, Babe Dahlgren was an All Star with over 1,000 career hits.
Read More >Steve O’Neill managed fourteen years in the big leagues for four teams; all had winning records. His 1945 Tigers were World Champs.
Read More >In 1986 Roger Clemens won the American League’s Cy Young and Most Valuable Player Awards and the All Star Game MVP.
Read More >Doc Cramer retired as baseball’s all-time leader in outfield putouts and in games played by a centerfielder. He also tallied 2,705 career hits.
Read More >Dom DiMaggio missed three full years during World War II. Despite this he played in seven All Star games, receiving MVP votes in six seasons.
Read More >Dwight Evans won 8 Gold Gloves, appeared in 3 All Star games and finished in the Top 10 of MVP voting 4 times. Would you put him in the Hall?
Read More >A six-time 20-game winner, Wes Ferrell hit a Major League record 37 homers as a pitcher. His brother Rick Ferrell is in the Hall of Fame.
Read More >The Boston Red Sox had an 86-year World Series Championship drought before hiring Terry Francona in 2004; they won two titles together.
Read More >A combat veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, Ralph Houk was awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and the Silver Star with oak leaf clusters.
Read More >"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball…"
~Jacques Barzun, 1954