Gene Mauch

The existentialist Samuel Beckett exhorted, "Fail better." And no professional sports team has ever failed better or with greater frequency than the Philadelphia Phillies. Failure has become synonymous with a...

Gene Mauch saw some big ones slip away, but still wound up a winner

A fielder makes a spectacular play and then leads off the next inning. Since the dawn of baseball, it's been a common occurrence. Or has it?

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The young couple from Boston angrily left Anaheim Stadium in the eighth inning thinking their Red Sox had choked again. It wasn't until the next morning, while they were nursing hangovers on the flight home, that...