Peter Gammons

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Peter Gammons serves as a studio analyst on Baseball Tonight and Baseball 2Day. He also provides "Diamond Notes" and other reports for SportsCenter. Gammons has been a senior writer for ESPN The Mag since Dec. 1999 and contributes to ESPN.com.

Take Me Out to the Ballgame
To commemorate the 100-year anniversary of baseball's most famous tune, "Baseball Tonight" has asked nine popular musical artists to record a rendition of the song and engage in a battle of the bands. Each version will debut during "Baseball Tonight" at 10 p.m. ET and then be posted on this page.
June 15, 2008

Hamilton an inspiration in so many ways
NEW YORK -- One of the best things about baseball is that someone else comes along and recreates being the hero. Out of the embers of the Black Sox scandal came Babe Ruth . As a nation regrouped betwe...
Peter Gammons | July 15, 2008

Cubs plan on adding pitcher
Carlos Zambrano threw 60 pitches in the bullpen Sunday afternoon and said "I feel so good I could pitch tonight." Actually, he will be back Friday. "I feel unbelievable," he said. "The ball was reall...
Peter Gammons | June 30, 2008

Biggest first-half surprises and disappointments
This week is the season's midpoint, a season that thus far has seen three managers fired in a week, two general managers dismissed (another body-slammed by a pitcher with a career 4.99 ERA) and the ga...
Peter Gammons | June 27, 2008

Firings aren't always the answer
It was the estimable Chicago columnist Bob Verdi who once wrote, "When a team is at the bottom, the problem is usually at the top." At the time, Verdi was referring to the 1970s Cubs, but his words ri...
Peter Gammons | June 23, 2008

Harden could be the big prize
Rich Harden … Indians general manager Mark Shapiro is doing the right thing, collecting due diligence should he decide that trading C.C. Sabathia will bring him more than two draft choices. Cle...
Peter Gammons | June 15, 2008

Remembering Tim Russert
Tim Russert was sitting at the home plate corner of the visitors dugout two and a half hours before the regular-season inauguration of the Nationals' new stadium and the opening of the 2008 baseball s...
Peter Gammons | June 14, 2008

Piniella's all about winning
There is one thing that I will never forget about Lou Piniella. Not Jerry Remy's single bouncing into his glove, or kicking his hat, or taking the Mariners to 116 wins. But the one play that defines h...
Peter Gammons | June 9, 2008

Good draft for African-Americans
In a week when an African-American became the Democratic nominee for president and the passing of Bo Diddley made the front page of the New York Times, baseball's draft promised a landscape change tha...
Peter Gammons | June 7, 2008

Three draft questions, answers
Here are three questions about the baseball draft: 1. ARE FIRST-ROUND PICKS GUARANTEES? No. Check the following decade of picks, which includes the first five selections, later first-rounders who m...
Peter Gammons | June 3, 2008

Catchers like Martin hard to find
Russell Martin has implored Joe Torre to let him play shortstop, maybe even in next Sunday's ESPN game with the Cubs. "It would be a dream come true," says Martin, a dream Dodger coaches have said i...
Peter Gammons | June 3, 2008

Church just proving he's human
We were in the Memphis airport headed for St. Louis for the 2007 season opener, and Jim Edmonds talked about his concussion, how tired he got, how he still couldn't drive a car for two hours without h...
Peter Gammons | May 31, 2008

Angels win with homegrown arms
When we awakened on May 28, the Angels' starting pitchers had won more games than any starting staff in the American League. And the two aces who combined for 37 wins last season -- John Lackey and Ke...
Peter Gammons | May 28, 2008

What we don't know about Mets
All we know on the morning after Willie Randolph's vote of confidence is that the Mets are 79-83 in their last 162 games. But there is so much we don't know because Randolph internalizes so much. W...
Peter Gammons | May 27, 2008

Magowan simply loved baseball
You can't relate, because it goes back to the Eisenhower Administration. Groton School was a place without weekends, where you had to wear a white shirt to dinner and go to chapel every day and twice ...
Peter Gammons | May 16, 2008

Schumaker credits McGwire's help
Skip Schumaker was never supposed to be an everyday player. In parts of seven minor league seasons, he hit seven homers and made the Cardinals in 2006 because he plays so hard, has an outstanding arm ...
Peter Gammons | May 5, 2008

Angels flourish despite adversity
DETROIT -- The Angels have played a month without their two best starting pitchers, John Lackey and Kelvim Escobar . Their closer, Frankie Rodriguez , is just now rounding into form after dealing with...
Peter Gammons | April 28, 2008

MLB now a young man's game
We'll see when we reach August, when the 35-year-olds and 40-year-olds find out if their minds are making promises that their bodies can't keep. "It's a different game today with the drug testing and ...
Peter Gammons | April 26, 2008

It's very different in N.Y., Boston
The numbers are not pretty. Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy have started a combined seven games, pitched 30 1/3 innings and are 0-5. Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz have started seven games, and won two. Af...
Peter Gammons | April 22, 2008

Predicting a Braves-Indians Series
Predictions have no currency; they are non-fiction, radio-TV shock-jock stuff. One can spend six weeks roaming spring training and believe that the Braves and Red Sox may well be the best teams in th...
Peter Gammons | March 28, 2008

Youth gives Reds hope in '08
Think about where the Reds were two years ago in terms of pitching, and now they have Aaron Harang and his 32 wins and 434 strikeouts the last two years, as well as Bronson Arroyo . But one of the bes...
Peter Gammons | March 24, 2008

Players keep the game great
What we are asked every day is what the Exxon Valdes mess that was the Mitchell report will do to baseball. Some journalists use their own eye tests to judge users and non-users, with no ESPN classic ...
Peter Gammons | March 22, 2008

Young pitchers will shape AL East
Phil Hughes has looked dominant this spring. "He was," says one GM, " the best player on the board in the Johan Santana talks." Ian Kennedy has looked like a young Mike Boddicker , an artist. We hav...
Peter Gammons | March 16, 2008

Educational year awaits for Twins
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Delmon Young got excited talking about it. "This is incredible," he said, looking out across the Twins' spring training site (Lee County Stadium). "Every day I get to work on hitt...
Peter Gammons | March 13, 2008

Grapefruit League's eight to watch
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- No one yet knows the long-term ramifications of Josh Beckett 's back stiffness, or how quickly the Mets will get all their pieces back, or whether Mike Hampton 's groin pull will h...
Peter Gammons | March 9, 2008

MLB's pitiable Cape League battle
Few owners actually care about the game of baseball, its roots, its soul, where kids go to become attached. The richest man in Minnesota can volunteer to contract the Twins, and the Wal-Mart boys can ...
Peter Gammons | March 7, 2008

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