Vida Blue
Vida Blue burst onto the scene in major-league baseball as a fireballing left-hander for the Oakland A’s and served as one of the primary characters in the A’s streak of five division championships and...
View ArticleCurt Blefary
Curtis Le Roy Blefary is best remembered for winning the American League Rookie of the Year award in 1965. He had three productive seasons for the Orioles before his intertwined personal demons,...
View ArticleSal Bando
Team captain Sal Bando was the glue that held the volatile Oakland A’s together during their three-year run as World Series champions (1972-1974). Respected by teammates, peers, and his managers, Bando...
View ArticleMike Andrews
From his key contributions as a rookie on the pennant-winning Boston Red Sox of 1967 to his final games spent entangled in one of the most controversial incidents in World Series history, Mike Andrews...
View ArticleDwain Anderson
Dwain Anderson was a utility infielder who played in 149 major-league games over the course of four seasons between 1971 and 1974. He threw and batted right-handed and was a versatile infielder,...
View ArticleBrant Alyea
Garrabrant Ryerson Alyea, IV, a free-swinging right-handed batter and one of just nine players to hit a home run on the first pitch he saw in the major leagues, was born on December 8, 1940, in...
View ArticleMatty Alou
Most famous today for being the second of three baseball-playing brothers, Mateo Alou was part of the first wave of Dominicans who helped change the very culture of American baseball in the 1960s....
View ArticleJesús Alou
He enjoyed a 15-year career in the major leagues and today is well into his sixth decade working in baseball, but Jesús Alou is destined to be remembered as the third brother in an extraordinary...
View ArticleJerry Adair
Kenneth Jerry Adair was born to Kinnie and Ola Adair on December 17, 1936, at Lake Station, an unincorporated area named for a station on a trolley car line between the northeastern Oklahoma cities of...
View ArticleGlenn Abbott
For Glenn Abbott, his days in the major leagues were filled with stories and memories and good feelings. In an interview, the former American League pitcher conjured up a past filled with...
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