The Super Trades of 1960s Baseball
Before there was free agency, trades were the path that teams followed to improve their rosters over the winter. From mid-October until spring training, shrewd general managers swapped talent to improve their competitive positions … and do so without having to spend millions of dollars on banjo hitters or torn rotator cuffs.
Today’s biggest trades are pulled off just before July’s trading deadline, when pennant-contenders stock up on players on the verge of free agency, renting for two months the players who can get them to October competition. Read more
Are some baseball players victims of Hall of Fame prejudice?
Is prejudice within the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Veterans Committee blocking great players from enshrinement among the game’s legends?
Here’s one theory why Ron Santo, Jim Kaat, Vada Pinson and Bobby Richardson — four great players from the 1960s — have been kept out of the Hall of Fame, and are likely to be denied that honor again. It seems that Hall of Fame voters may have a prejudice against 1960s players. Read more
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