Oddities
Unusual events and offbeat antics that make baseball endlessly entertaining
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Sep 25, 2025
The Trick That Changed the Rulebook
How Miller Huggins Outsmarted a Rookie Pitcher in 1915
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Sep 13, 2025
One Bat to Rule Them All?
Angels’ odd experiment nearly backfires before sparking a win
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Sep 11, 2025
SkyDome’s First “Bug Delay” Brings Baseball to a Halt
It wasn’t rain or thunder that delayed the Blue Jays game—it was bugs
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Sep 9, 2025
A Blockbuster Trade - Of Managers
Cleveland and Detroit's unconventional swap aims to energize their 1960 seasons
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Sep 5, 2025
Déjà Vu Trade: Same Players, Same Season
The White Sox and Senators pulled off one of baseball’s strangest trade combos
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Sep 3, 2025
Rain, Rivalry, and $1,000 Threats: Brewers-Tigers Chaos in ’72
Billy Martin stalls, Del Crandall speeds up, and the umps finally crack down
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Aug 26, 2025
When Two Runners Are One Too Many
Carlton Fisk Turns a Yankees Rally into a Rare Double Play
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Aug 21, 2025
Mets Make History Without an Assist
The Mets’ 5-1 win over the Phillies was memorable not for the score—but for how they got there.
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Aug 14, 2025
Braves Light Up Houston — With Their Own Fireworks
Astros’ Dome Show Stays Dark as Milwaukee Bats Steal the Night
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Aug 11, 2025
The Day First Base Was the Quietest Spot on the Field
Franklin Stubbs played every inning... and never did what first basemen typically do
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Aug 7, 2025
The 59-Foot Grounder That Cleared the Bases
A routine comebacker turned into chaos—and three Yankee runs
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Aug 5, 2025
You're out! No, you're safe! No, you're out!
A 34-minute debate, two conflicting calls, and an unforgettable moment in Pittsburgh
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Jul 31, 2025
The Walk That Wasn’t
A miscounted pitch, a missed chance, and Albert Belle made the Blue Jays pay
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Jul 26, 2025
A Walk-Off on Catcher’s Interference?! It Just Happened...
It was a bizarre 10th-inning finish not seen since Johnny Bench in ’71
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Jul 25, 2025
The sneaky right fielder pickoff
How Jay Johnstone stunned Frank Taveras—and the entire ballpark—in 1975
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Jul 21, 2025
An 8-minute showdown that changed baseball rules
When a switch-hitter met a switch-pitcher, chaos ensued in Brooklyn
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Jul 18, 2025
Love, bats & body slams
Ted Turner’s “Wedlock and Headlocks” jumpstarts Braves attendance
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Jul 8, 2025
Pittsburgh pitcher wins Houston vs Washington game
The May 2009 game concluded in July with a quirky twist
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Jul 7, 2025
It was a memorable debut
The Mariners rookie would've no doubt preferred it was for a different reason
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Jul 4, 2025
McCarver's July 4th fireworks were a dud
Grand slam fizzled as he rounded first
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Jun 26, 2025
"Tell me again... why did we want a dome?"
An unusual rainout may have had Houston fans wondering
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Jun 11, 2025
And the starting DH is... a pitcher???
Faced with a shortage of options while creating the day's lineup, Billy Martin went in a direction no one else ever had
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Jun 10, 2025
Who was that masked man?
Incognito Mets manager causes a stir with league officials
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May 26, 2025
Pitcher wins on brother's walk-off homer
Headlines exclaim "Phils Can't Cope with two Sherrys"
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May 23, 2025
Take me out to the ballgame - literally
When their ace knuckleballer needed his trusted catcher, the Red Sox went to extreme lengths to get him there and in the game