The Yearly Reader

Select from any of the decades below to start your journey through the most comprehensive online oral history of baseball's modern era. (Note: The 2000s covers each year from 2000-12.)

The Top Ten
As determined by you, here are the most popular pages within the Yearly Reader section:

1934: Dizzy, Daffy and Ducky
The Cardinals' Gashouse Gang goes into full bully mode behind the dazzling Dean brothers.

1914: The Miracle Braves
After a typically depressing start, the hapless Boston Braves stagger the baseball world with one of the game's biggest comebacks; meanwhile, the Federal League begins business.

1968: Year of the Pitcher
Batting averages plummet as major league pitchers dominate the game of baseball as never before.

1900: On the Brink of Adulthood
The monopolistic National League lumbers into the 20th Century by continuing its self-served sleepwalk a year before the American League is forced to wake it up.

1906: The Hitless Wonders
How the Chicago White Sox bat .230 with seven home runs all year—and still become world champions.

1935: The Babe’s Bittersweet Bow Out
Babe Ruth's final year in the majors is full of decline, frustration—and one last marvel of immortality.

1920: Saviors of the Game
Babe Ruth and Kenesaw Mountain Landis restore excitement and credibility to an ailing game.

1960: A-Maz-ing!
The Pittsburgh Pirates become one of the game's unlikeliest champions with a historic walk-off home run by Bill Mazeroski.

1969: The Amazin’ Mets
The New York Mets, perennial laughingstocks of the 1960s, perform a stunning about-face to end the decade.

2011: What Wild Wednesday Wrought
Surging September comebacks by the St. Louis Cardinals and Tampa Bay Rays fuel a memorable regular season finish.

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