There has never been a stat page like Shohei Ohtani’s. Every other player in baseball history gets one career line; Ohtani gets two, and both of them read like a Hall of Famer’s. Through early July 2026, he sits at 298 career home runs at the plate, a career ERA under 2.80 on the mound, … Read more
Shohei Ohtani holds the second-largest contract in the history of North American sports, a 10-year, $700 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers. And in 2026, his paycheck from that team is $2 million, less than 17 of his own teammates make. It’s the strangest arrangement in professional sports, and it’s entirely by design. The … Read more
We review the best sunflower seeds using our 5-category process to determine which we think are among the best. Having played baseball and been around the game for many years, I’ve had my fair share of sunflower seeds. Baseball and sunflower seeds go hand in hand. Especially for those who prefer to eat sunflower seeds … Read more
No name carries more weight in the baseball card hobby than Mickey Mantle. Alongside the T206 Honus Wagner, Mantle’s cards are the cornerstone of the entire collecting world, and for good reason: he was the most popular player of the post-war “Golden Age” of card collecting, a switch-hitting Yankees icon with 536 home runs, three … Read more
Baseball and the movies have always been a perfect match. Something about the game’s pace, its mythology, and its place in American life lends itself to great storytelling, from tear-jerking dramas about fathers and sons to riotous comedies about lovable losers. The result is one of the richest catalogs in all of sports cinema, full … Read more
The 1981 Topps baseball set holds a special place in hobby history. It arrived at a pivotal moment: 1981 was the first year in decades that Topps faced real competition, as Fleer and Donruss both launched sets the same year, ending Topps’ long monopoly on the baseball card market. For collectors, that makes the 1981 … Read more
Earned run average, or ERA, is the classic measure of a pitcher’s dominance: the average number of earned runs they allow per nine innings. The lower the number, the better, and the lowest figures in baseball history belong to some of the most legendary arms the game has ever seen. But asking for the “lowest … Read more
The All-Star break marks the unofficial halfway point of the Major League Baseball season, and every July it doubles as a checkpoint for the game’s biggest power hitters. A monster first half can put a slugger on pace for a historic season, and the question fans ask every summer is the same: who has hit … Read more
Striking out 20 batters in a single game is one of the rarest feats in all of baseball, rarer, in fact, than a perfect game. It has happened in a nine-inning game only a handful of times in over a century of major-league play, and the names attached to it read like a pitching hall … Read more
There is a special kind of engineering magic in watching a stadium roof glide open before a game, transforming an enclosed arena into an open-air ballpark in a matter of minutes. Retractable-roof stadiums offer the best of both worlds: shelter from rain, snow, and brutal heat when needed, and the classic open-sky experience when the … Read more