Cap Anson was one of the greatest hitters, managers and innovators in baseball history. In a LONG career, he hit .300 in a season 24 times, including .380 three times. He played from 1871 to 1897 and ...

It’s a reality of life. After well-known people pass away, the vast majority tend to eventually fade from public memory. Eventually, most are reduced to — if they are lucky — at least a few factoids.

A dozen years ago I wrote about a four-volume biography of Adrian Constantine "Cap" Anson, a 19th-century baseball player some believe is the most important figure ever -- bigger than Babe Ruth or ...

His plaque in Cooperstown, N.Y., was in need of amendment, or editing, the moment it was unveiled at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. To be sure, of the achievements it cited of Adrian ...

Chicago Cubs Hall of Famer Cap Anson was the first major-leaguer to reach 3,000 hits. The pilgrimage of Nebraskans into Chicago begins. On the way to Evanston, no doubt many in red will get off on the ...

My feeling is summed up by something Bill James wrote in "Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame?" Paraphrased, it's roughly this: You don't memorialize the worst parts of your history by bestowing ...

ON BROADWAY, as in popular song and popular fiction, the 1890s acknowledged no such thing as excess where melodrama was concerned. The more sweeping and stilted the lines, the more fondly they were ...