“Men are suffering from hunger and exposure; and the wounded are in very bad condition,” Whittlesey had reported the previous morning in a message carried by one of his last pigeons.

Torpedo bats are just the latest innovation in the design of baseball bats, some of which stuck, and others which ... did not ...

To eclipse Nap Lajoie’s all-time franchise fWAR total ... and allowing him to average just under 4 fWAR for these last (then) six years. I can’t tell you which of these scenarios is more ...

Future Hall of Famer Nap Lajoie used a bat that had two knobs ... describing Joey Votto as the last of the ash bat advocates. Votto, of course, has since retired. Even so, more than 150 years ...