Drew Davis

The baby had a higher exit Velo than that single ball that Bryce made contact with this postseason

He just might

60 years ago today - Red’s pitcher Jim Maloney faces 40 batters in a no-hitter. 10 walks and a HBP in 10 innings pitched.

Ernie Banks goes 0-5. The only man in MLB history to be retired 5 times while his team was no-hit.

Sleepy Drewdavis71. Boning was the entire Al B Sure In Effect Mode album or MTV Uptown Jams Unplugged and I was Drewdavis69 then.

Enya was in heavy rotation for going-to-bed Drewdavis71 back in the day

Slightly diminish a band: The In Hospice Milkmen

Billy was good to collectors. Always a special place in my collection for good people.

I don't have many 1959 Topps cards and I only pulled one 50th anniversary buy back...

This is a rip off of the original Thaddeus Young graphic, but I like this one better.

Which player was teammates with every Phillies Cy Young winner — though not always as a Phillie or in their Cy Young year?

Lou Boudreau passed away OTD 2001

Jack Crimian played for Lou on the 1956 A's. Jack is pitching and Ted Williams due to leadoff the 8th

Lou's advice "Only throw 1 warmup pitch and then don't throw him that same pitch - he's watching"

Pulled these from packs 15+ years ago and thought “who the fook are these guys?”

Excited to see them matchup tonight. Keeping my son up to watch

Dick Allen slashed .292/.378/.534 for his career

If you lowered each by 30 points, the ONLY men to achieve .262/.348/.504 during Dick's era are all first-ballot Hall of Famers (Clemente was a special election).

It's crazy that he wasn't in already.

In 2016 Phillies public address announcer - the legendary Dan Baker - invited me to join him at the PSWA dinner. We sat with Gene Garber, Bill Giles, Larry Christenson, and Richard Allen jr.

Dan introduced me to "Froggy" - the man who has spearheaded the campaign for years.

OPS+ leaders for every 10 year span in history - published in Dick Allen, The Life and Times of a Baseball Immortal: An Illustrated Biography in 2017.

This is a great story & I love kids getting involved, but this was the centerpiece to the campaign for 10 years before their teacher came up with it

35 minutes into a 45-minute drive to my daughter’s swim meet, my wife—riding shotgun and awake the entire time—turns to me and asks:

“Which way did the directions take you?”

We’ve been on the same journey, but apparently not the same trip.

The star power of the ESPYS has fallen off

9 years ago today, our then 2 month old met his namesake - Ryan Howard.

Through some luck and good fortune, he’s gone on to have some moments with other Phillies MVPs - including last night’s AS MVP Kyle Schwarber

Pretty cool how the WNBA's biggest star participates in the signature event of their all-star weekend.

My daughter's summer swim regular season wrapped up today. Went 13-1 in her individual events. In the lone loss she broke a team record.

1st
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2nd, broke team record
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She's 11yo and returns to the same age group next year. Helluva season.

How about “A Capella” from the 2009 Camden Riversharks?

Just missing a hyphen, but Mr Alt-rock needs in

Carl Yastrzemski got a hit off 59 year old Satchel Paige in a MLB game.

Mike Yastrzemski pitched in a game started by 43yo Justin Verlander.

That’s Old Yaz vs. MLB’s oldest ever and Young Yaz with MLB’s oldest now.

Baseball is generational, weird, and perfect

And here we are on Larry Doby Day. Seventy-eight years ago today, Doby joined the Cleveland Indians in Chicago. As I wrote in "Our Team," it was a momentous day in the American League but a devastating one for Doby.

Holy shit! That’s incredible. I never put that together - that is absolutely something right up my alley. Awesome.

This may be my favorite trivia item ever - only "may be" since I didn't come up with it first :)

Awesome stuff

Buddy Lewis was a 22-year old 3B for the Senators that day. He'd finish the season with a career total of 753 hits (only Cobb has more before age 23 with 765)

3 years serving in WWII changed the trajectory of his career.

He lived long enough to respond to me about Lou Gehrig day in early 2000s.

My 9th grade science teacher had a boa constrictor named Larry after him

Dan Baker has called 86 different MVPs to the plate in his career.

In every season since 1965(!!!) at least one MVP had Dan call them during their career

51 men have won the award at least once since 1990. Dan has called 50 of them (Juan Gonzalez the only missing)