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The best baseball players born on Dec. 22

@LenHochberg
December 22, 2025

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Dec. 22.

The best baseball players born on Sept. 22

@LenHochberg
September 22, 2025

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Sept. 22:

The best baseball players born on Feb. 12

@LenHochberg
February 12, 2025

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Feb. 12.

The best baseball players born on Jan. 27

@LenHochberg
January 27, 2025

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Jan. 27.

Ed Kranepool, longest-tenured Met and 1969 WS champ, dies at 79

@LenHochberg
September 9, 2024

Ed Kranepool, the native New Yorker who became an original 1962 Met as a 17-year-old and spent his entire 18-year Major League career with New York, hitting a critical home run in the 1969 World Series for the victorious Miracle Mets, died on Sunday after suffering from cardiac arrest in

Pinch me! Elly learning Japanese to speak with Shohei

@LenHochberg
July 8, 2024

Elly De La Cruz was just chosen for his first All-Star Game. So what is the Reds' superstar shortstop most looking forward to when the best of the American and National Leagues gather in Arlington on July 15? "I'm learning Japanese to talk to Shohei," De La Cruz responded when

Jerry Grote, catcher on '69 Amazin' Mets, dies at 81

@LenHochberg
April 7, 2024

Jerry Grote, the rifle-armed, tough-as-nails Texan who caught every postseason inning for the 1969 Miracle Mets and famously bear-hugged a leaping Jerry Koosman after the final out of the historic World Series upset of the Baltimore Orioles, and who was paid the ultimate catching compliments by none other than Hall

The best baseball players born on Feb. 29

@LenHochberg
February 29, 2024

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Feb. 29.

Mets Hall of Famer Bud Harrelson dies at 79

@LenHochberg
January 11, 2024

Bud Harrelson, the scrappy, glove-first shortstop on the 1969 Miracle Mets, third-base coach for the 1986 World Series-winning team and later the club’s manager, and who tangled with Pete Rose in one of the wildest brawls in baseball history, died Wednesday in East Northport, New York. He was 79. Harrelson

Tiger Woods practices his swing ... with a bat?

@LenHochberg
December 16, 2022

Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders ... Tiger Woods? The superstar golfer and noted Dodgers fan has no intentions of becoming a two-sport star like the other one-name celebrities Bo and Deion, but he was spotted swinging a baseball bat on Friday. Arriving for the PNC Championship family tournament in which he

Watch: Upton leaps at the wall, but why?

@LenHochberg
July 17, 2019

As soon as the ball left Alex Bregman's bat, he looked up as if he thought it was a home run. As soon as Justin Upton started heading back toward the left-field wall at Angel Stadium, he looked as if he, too, thought it was a home run. He even