Lanier was fresh off averaging 27.3 points and 15.6 rebounds per game as a junior. If he weren’t playing at the same time as “Pistol” Pete Maravich, the most prolific scorer in college basketball history, and Lew Alcindor, the most decorated winner in college basketball history, he may have been the most sought-after amateur player.
Rochester Red Wings General Manager Dan Mason wishes he had more concrete answers about when baseball will return to Frontier Field…
The eighth and final countdown in the “Red Wings Best Of” series focuses on left-handed pitchers…
All five aces are Red Wings Hall of Famers while one is also a National Baseball Hall of Famer. Not a bad rotation…
To pass the time until they’re playing ball again, we’re counting down the five best players at each position in club history in the “Red Wings: Best Of” series…
Some of these fan favorites proceeded to have fruitful major league careers, including one who set one of baseball’s most “unbreakable” records…
The Orioles’ top choice in the 1967 draft formed a veritable one-two punch with second round-pick Don Baylor. The duo combined to hit 52 homers and drive in 178 runs, powering the highest-scoring offense in the league…
While one of the top players in Red Wings history is more well known around baseball for his managerial career, and another is more famous in Rochester for a play at third base, these five players called second base home- and excelled there- as Red Wings…
The Rochester Red Wings have a legacy of famous first basemen. For example, Eddie Murray is one prominent name that didn’t make the top five; 1966 Minor League Player of the Year Mike Epstein and slugger Boog Powell didn’t either…
Last Monday, English and classmate Julia Schnieder co-published an article on prominent fact-checking website PolitiFact. The piece examined University at Buffalo clinical assistant professor Jamie Nadler’s quotes in a Buffalo News article asserting that small trials to test convalescent plasma therapy for coronavirus patients “seem to have had some degree of success.”