Tag: Baseball History

• What a 1959 Baseball Game Can Teach Us About Team Performance: Harvey Haddix’s “Perfect” Game

  “It was just another loss, and that is no good.” – Harvey Haddix, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher, after his 1959 near-perfect game.

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  February 8, 2026

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• October of ’04: How Newly Announced Hall of Famer Carlos Beltrán Burst onto the National Stage

  An October of a lifetime came via the bat of a 27-year-old Puerto Rican center fielder. A record-tying 8 postseason home runs and a record-tying 5 consecutive postseason games with a home run put the cherry on top of a 12-game stretch that can only be described as legendary. This is the story of now-Hall…

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  February 5, 2026

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