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For many years, Major League batters received various awards for specific feats on the field, such as hitting a sign on the outfield wall. The reward usually was a suit or other article of...

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January 17, 2021 Chris Perez didn’t get many opportunities to swing the bat during his seven big-league seasons. As a short reliever who played primarily in the American League, that was to be expected. Somewhat less expected was what happened when he did have a chance to dig into the batters box. “I had two [plate appearances], and I’m bitter about one of them,” Perez told me recently. “In 2008, my rookie year with St. Louis, we were in Florida at the old stadium, playing the Marl...

Whats in a (team) name?, Part 5 (Killers?) By JohnW53 on Jan 7, 2021, 3:03am CST + .......... Many baseball books and websites show that the Cubs played under 4 names. Baseball-reference.com, for example, lists: 1876-1889: White Stockings 1903-2020: Cubs But as shown in previous posts in this series, newspapers referred to the team by multiple other names. Nor was there an immediate shift from one name to another. In 1902, as described yesterday, the Chicago Tribune printed the last...