This article is an adaptation from The Greatest Game Ever Pitched: Juan Marichal, Warren Spahn and the Pitching Duel of the Century (Triumph Books, 2011) with parts ...
Fifty years ago this weekend, the San Francisco Giants’ Juan Marichal brought a baseball bat down upon the head of the Dodgers’ John Roseboro in a pounding moment in sports history. It was a brawl ...
On August 22, 1965, Juan Marichal struck John Roseboro over the head with his bat, opening a gash two inches long, inciting a 14-minute bench-clearing brawl, and forever linking the two men. But this ...
The Kansas City Royals received considerable coverage and social media attention for fighting earlier this season, but the brawl that has been written and talked about more than any other in baseball ...
If you care to waste $499.10 online, you can be the unlucky owner of a 16-by-20 picture pointlessly perpetuating one of baseball’s ugliest moments. Of course, you would have to be, well, batty. The ...
Juan Marichal holding bat, John Roseboro attacked, and Sandy Koufax closes in. Bettmann Archive Last night the Pittsburgh Steelers lost to the Cleveland Browns. No one is gonna be talking nearly as ...
More than 40 years later, the incident remains vivid in the minds of two of the greatest Giants of all time. It was a Saturday afternoon in Houston in the early '60s and Orlando Cepeda wanted to go ...
MLB Hall of Fame pitcher Juan Marichal spoke to a reporter recently and said he believes that the reason behind the increasing injuries among modern pitchers is a lack of preparation. The legendary ...
Juan Marichal is infamous in Los Angeles Dodgers lore as being one of the best pitchers in San Francisco Giants history. Marichal pitched 16 seasons in the Major Leagues — 14 with the Giants — en ...
Juan Marichal, left, gives Wilie Mays a playful hug after the Giants – behind Mays home run — beat Warren Spahn and the Braves, 1-0, in 16 innings on July 2, 1963. Forty-six years ago today, July 2, ...