While doing research for the “World Series Preview“, we discovered (thanks to some helpful friends of the VORG) that Jake Peavy was the ONLY unanimous winner of a Cy Young Award to never receive at least one vote in any other year. The Award has been bestowed unanimously 22 times, to 16 different hurlers. Every … Read more
Game four of the World Series will feature a match-up of Ryan Vogelsong and Jason Vargas. It will mark the 39th World Series game with starting pitchers with matching first letters in their last names. This will be the first World Series contest where both starters have last names beginning with the letter “V”. The … Read more
We’ve finally reached the World Series, and with it the established institutions will of course give you the standard previews of the Royals/Giants showdown.
But this is the VORG … we don’t do “standard” … we do factoids, minutiae, trivia, oddities, random bits of info on all the major participants for both teams.
Here now … with major thanks to Baseball Reference and its Play Index, the VORG 2014 WORLD SERIES PREVIEW
October 17, 1989. Game three of the World Series between the A’s and Giants at Candlestick Park. Pregame activities were wrapping up when at 5:04 Pacific time, a 6.9 earthquake (later named the “Loma Prieta” quake), the most destructive in that area since the famous quake of 1906, rolled through the park and San Francisco … Read more