While I was fact-checking one of my posts about the 1959 World Series, I found this brief, contemporaneous appreciation of the event by Roy Terrell that appeared in Sports Illustrated, probably with lots of great photos. Terrell's piece conveys a good sense of this Series and of the' [...]
Sometimes you hear it said that baseball's post-season reveals weaknesses in teams that went undetected during the regular season. I've never really subscribed to this view. The 162 game season (and its 154 game predecessor) should expose any true weaknesses. The much shorter post-season (only four to seven games in' [...]
