Vida Blue

Swinging from the heels, and often at each other, Charlie Finley's club became baseball's most entertaining spectacle--and its most forward-looking

May 31, 1971

Vida Blue stepped smartly from the mound, and as he approached the Giants' dugout, he tipped the bill of his cap to acknowledge a standing ovation and blew the crowd a giant diaphanous bubble-gum bubble. Blue was...

It has been veni, vidi, vici for Vida in San Francisco's stunning ascent in the National West

As curious as it may seem, a player who until the middle of spring training was on an American League roster has been for many months a pivotal influence in the affairs of the National League. Consider what might...