A Sports History with the World's Oldest Man
from Montana Kaimin
 The world's oldest man at 112-years old, Walter Breuning isn't exactly a prima donna type of man. He doesn't have time to waste. Instead of fielding conventional questions regarding his birth in 1896, or his grandfather's service in the Civil War, during a recent interview, Breuning takes an hour out of his morning to recall a century of sports moments he has witnessed. More
    

Ranking Baseball's Perfect Games
from Sports Illustrated
Mark Buerhle joined one of baseball's most elite clubs on a Thursday afternoon in Chicago -- the Zeros-Only Gang of 18 whose members have each put together 27 consecutive outs in a winning ballgame. It is an elite club, but not limited to elite pitchers. In fact, Buerhle, a good-but-not-great hurler, slots fairly neatly into the middle ranks of the roster of perfectos. More
    

Greats of Baltimore Orioles History: Mike Cuellar
from Baltimore Sports Now and Then
Baltimore Sports Then and Now recognizes Mike Cuellar as the Vintage Athlete of the Week - one of the key pitchers for the Baltimore Orioles during their championship run of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Sometimes timing is everything. After toiling away in the minors and on primarily losing teams for a decade, a seemingly insignificant trade following the 1968 season proved to be all that Cuellar needed to become one of the top pitchers in baseball. More
    

This Annotated Week in Baseball History: Sept. 6 - Sept. 12, 1913
from The Hardball Times
"It is well that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it," Robert E. Lee. Lee, who spent all but the last five years of his adult life in the military, knew what of he spoke. In light of that, one can hardly imagine someone being enthused by the possibility of leaving a career as a major league pitcher in order to serve the country in war. But for Hugh Mulcahy, such an option might have seemed, if not ideal, then at least acceptable. More
    

Heroes: My Personal Mount Rushmore!
from The Pecan Park Eagle
Jerry Witte … Larry Miggins … Frank Mancuso … Solly Hemus! That is the order of these four men in this 1998 photo from the Houston Winter Baseball Dinner. Sadly, two of the men shown here, Jerry Witte (2002) and Frank Mancuso (2007), are gone now on the date of this 2009 writing. God rest their souls as those of us who loved them keep their memories alive as best we are able. More
    

Record-breaking Attendance Heralds Renaissance of Korea's Pro Baseball League
from Youth News Agency
Every evening of this season, tens of thousands of roaring spectators have packed formerly quiet ballparks. On a recent Wednesday night, the highest cumulative attendance record in 14 years was set as 5,407,527 fans attended with 50 games still remaining. Founded in 1982, the Korea Baseball Organization had been stagnant since 2000, when South Korea's big-name players went to the U.S. Major League, causing fans to spend hours at home watching their heroes on TV instead of going to their local ballparks. More
    

Putting the Stars Back in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game
from Baseball Library
July 6, 1933 – The American League defeats the National League 4-2 in a mid-season exhibition game dreamed up by Arch Ward of the Chicago Tribune. Five hours? Fifteen innings? Twenty three pitchers? Three errors and three strikeouts by the same player? The prospect of outfielders or third basemen going to the mound to pitch? The possibility of calling the game due to a lack of players? Sounds more like the slow pitch softball game at the office picnic than the so-called "Mid-Summer Classic." More
    

Pittsburgh's Certainly Not Alone in Baseball's Era of Futility
from Sports Illustrated
Here's the thing. You already know that the Pirates now have 17 straight losing seasons. But what you might not know -- or at least might not have thought about -- is that over those 17 years, eight other teams have had long stretches of losing baseball. More
    

Please Note: A technical problem has prevented us from re-running the Tommy Brown article in this issue. We are working on the problem and will run it again in a subsequent issue. We apologize for any inconveniences.
 

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