What the 2023 pitch clock, shift limits and larger bases did, with league totals from the historical record comparing 2022 with 2023 through 2025 on stolen bases, scoring, strikeouts and attendance.
How a single paragraph in the player contract bound ballplayers to one club for life, why Curt Flood lost his Supreme Court case in 1972, and how two pitchers and an arbitrator ended the reserve clause in 1975.
How the San Francisco Giants won three World Series in five years, 2010, 2012 and 2014, with the series results, the pitching, the run-differential math and an honest answer to whether it was a dynasty.
Rickey Henderson's 1,406 steals stand 468 ahead of Lou Brock. A look at the career leaders, the eight 100-steal seasons, the success rate that makes a steal worth it and why the 2023 rules revived the running game.
How the players' strike of August 1994 ended the season early and erased the World Series, what the owners and players were fighting over, and how attendance and the game recovered through 1995 and Cal Ripken's streak.
The three most famous losing seasons in baseball, the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, the 1962 Mets and the 2024 White Sox, with the records, the rosters and the context that explain each collapse.
Three unbroken runs of Yankees championships, with the records, the managers, the postseason series and the roster facts behind 13 titles in 14 seasons, plus what separated each dynasty from the others.
How women have played, coached, owned, run and umpired baseball, from the 1943 to 1954 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League to the front-office and dugout firsts of recent years.
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