Hopefully Jerry Manuel was right. Believe it or not, in April 2010 he compared his rookie first baseman Ike Davis to Willie Stargell, the Pittsburgh Pirates Hall of Famer whose 21-year playing career ended in 1982. Manuel said, “(Davis) reminds me of (Stargell) in that they have the same hitch (in their swings). There have [...]
1972 JIM FREGOSI BOYHOOD PHOTO Is bigger really better? As if anticipating the excesses of the decade to come, the 1970 Topps set tipped the scales at 720 cards, besting the previous high of 664 cards from the 1969 set. The black-beauty set of 1971 swelled to 752 cards, reaching into the far corners of [...]