Joe Morgan (baseball)

You are reading the 4,000th post in WatchDog's 20-month history. Thanks as always for your loyalty, support and contributions. To mark the occasion we link to Tom Hoffarth's post on the top 50 sports broadcasters of all time, as per......

ESPN will announce Wednesday that Steve Phillips will join Jon Miller and Joe Morgan in the "Sunday Night Baseball" booth for 2009, altering for the network's announcing lineup for its showcase event for the first time in 20 seasons of......

The main element of my Friday newspaper column is a look at SNY's new Mets studio team of Bob Ojeda and Chris Carlin. You can read about that here if you are interested. Due to a technical glitch, the other......

(BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; VC: Elected by the Veterans Committee; NL: Elected by the Veterans Committee based on Negro league career): 1936 -- BBWAA: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Honus...

Wow. Just wow. Someone help us pick our jaw up off the floor. Splinter Cell Chaos Theory is easily the best looking game we've ever seen. Super spy Sam Fisher is back in this latest installment of the popular franchise with author Tom Clancy's name on it,...

From the time Sammy Sosa's bat split into pieces Tuesday night until Joe Borowski picked off Charles Gipson for the final out in Sunday's 8-7 win over the New York Yankees, the Cubs spent six straight days in the spin cycle. They survived the corked-...

The Orioles didn't have to travel far during the 1983 World Series, but they were carrying a lot of baggage when they faced the star-studded Philadelphia Phillies 20 years ago. "We were determined - after what happened in 1979 - that this team was not...

Martha Stewart may have been the best thing to happen to Sammy Sosa Wednesday. Second best was Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, with a big assist from her husband, the former president. Thanks to Stewart's indictment on securities fraud charges and the...

Lost amid the golden anniversary celebration of major-league baseball's integration is an unanswerable question: What if Jackie Robinson had turned out to be a flop? In his "Grand Experiment," Branch Rickey was looking for a player who was a supremely...

The post-game celebration of the Orioles' 1983 World Series victory over the Philadelphia Phillies remains etched in traveling secretary Phil Itzoe's mind. The team ran out of champagne, and he had to find more. When the first five cases had been...