This Date in Baseball - Baltimore’s Cal Ripken Jr. begins his record consecutive games streak

1982 -- Baltimore’s Cal Ripken Jr. began his record consecutive games streak by starting at third base against the Toronto Blue Jays.

Prized Mickey Mantle Topps 1952 card surfaces on eBay-owned platform Goldin

The chase for the most sought-after sports trading card of 2026 is over. Months after Topps announced that the company’s 2026 ...
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Former Detroit Tiger Mickey Tettleton on the origin of his unorthodox batting stance

He hit 245 home runs in his Major League career, including 122 with the Detroit Tigers. We asked Mickey Tettleton about his ...
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Naulivou Lauaki Jr blasts two mammoth homers in Oregon baseball’s 16-6 win over Illinois

After a devastating extra-innings loss in the Big Ten Tournament Championship, No. 15 Oregon was announced as one of 16 teams hosting a Regional... 967, 19 and 16. The distance of Naulivou Lauaki ...

Mitchell Robinson, the Knicks’ longest-tenured player, endured every high and low en route to NBA Finals

Before there was Jalen Brunson — or Josh Hart or OG Anunoby or Mikal Bridges or Karl-Anthony Towns — there was Mitchell ...
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We wish these HRs were tracked by Statcast

Statcast has tracked games at every Major League ballpark for eight seasons now, and with each passing year we’re getting a better understanding of just how hard and how far a big leaguer can hit a ...