The Top Ten
As determined by you, here are the most popular pages within the Yearly Reader section:
1903 The First World Series
Both the American and National Leagues finally agree to co-exist in peace, leading to an inaugural “world’s championship” between the two pennant winners.
1969 The Amazin’ Mets
The New York Mets, perennial laughingstocks of the 1960s, perform a stunning about-face to end the decade.
1993 The Last Great Pennant Race
On the eve of the wild card era, 100-game winners San Francisco and Atlanta fight it out for a single postseason spot.
1900 On the Brink of Adulthood
The monopolistic National League lumbers into the 20th Century by continuing its self-served sleepwalk a year before the American League is forced to wake it up.
1964 The Fizz Kids
How the Philadelphia Phillies suffer through baseball’s most infamous pennant race collapse.
1973 Take My Division, Please
Six mediocre teams stumble and bumble with one another in a memorable National League East race.
1919 Say it Ain’t So
Eight members of the Chicago White Sox plot the unthinkable and throw the World Series against Cincinnati.
1934 Dizzy, Daffy and Ducky
The Cardinals’ Gashouse Gang goes into full bully mode behind the dazzling Dean brothers.
1925 An Intestinal Excess
The good life—or too much of it—finally catches up with a bloated Babe Ruth.
1935 The Babe’s Bittersweet Bow Out
Babe Ruth’s final year in the majors is full of decline, frustration—and one last marvel of immortality.