BULL PEN?

You come out of the bull pen, you may be asked to get the team out of a jam.  Or you may be asked to keep it close, or keep the team ahead.  You may indeed be the closer, who is such a key, critical part of the equation.  And, the situation you walk, jog or skip into...

ARGUING AGAINST THE KNIFE

Ulnar collateral ligament reconstructions, also known as Tommy John surgery.  The first was in 1974, thank you to  the remarkable Dr. Franklin Jobe whose patient was indeed Tommy John.  When Dr. Jobe did the surgery back then, he projected about a 1 in 100 chance of...

HERBERT JEFEFRIS PENNOCK

Some will tell you that the 1927 New York Yankees, you know the ones with “murderer’s row”, remain the greatest baseball team of all time.  The moniker murderer’s row describes the first six hitters in the lineup: Earle Combs, Mark Koenig, Babe...