To understand the true meaning of Willie Smith’s walkoff two-run homer on April 8, 1969, a little background is needed. The Cubs had gone into a two-decade slumber after 1946. From 1947-66 — 20 full ...

1967 – South African surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant, on Louis ...

The 2007 New York Mets suffered a magnificent collapse. It was one of the greatest in baseball history, even loftier, in many minds, than that of the 1969 Chicago Cubs, who squandered a 9.5-game lead ...