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Baseball History: Braun first Milwaukee National League MVP ...

Milwaukee Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun made Milwaukee baseball history by becoming the first player from the city to win the National League Most Valuable Player Award since Henry Aaron in 1957 did it with the Milwaukee Braves. The cit [...]

Posted On : Nov, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Texas Rangers rewriting baseball history

"Legends are born in October" is Major League Baseball's postseason marketing slogan this fall. And it's as fine and true as, well, a Nelson Cruz home run in an edge-of-your chair playoff game. The Texas Rangers though [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

African baseball team to make history at Little League World...

For the first time, a team from Africa will compete in the annual Little League World Series after a squad from Kampala, Uganda called the Rev. John Foundation Little League team took the Middle East-Africa region. They beat out Saudi Ara [...]

Posted On : Jul, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Philadelphia Phillies' Roy Halladay Tosses Second No-Hitter ...

Talk about a postseason debut. Roy Halladay threw the second no-hitter in postseason history, leading the Philadelphia Phillies over the Cincinnati Reds 4-0 in Game 1 of the NL division series on Wednesday. Don Larsen is the only ot [...]

Posted On : Oct, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

Dallas Braden enters history books by pitching perfect game

Dallas Braden wrote his name into Major League Baseball's history books yesterday by pitching a perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays. Braden, 26, needed only 109 pitches to get all 27 outs, striking out six as he led the A's t [...]

Posted On : May, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Mark Buehrles Place in Baseball History

With all due respect to Don Larsen, who pitched the only perfect game in World Series history, the one that Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle threw Thursday was even tougher. In fact, it was the second-most difficult perfect game of a [...]