Fifty years ago, rookie Detroit Tigers pitcher Mark 'The Bird' Fidrych became a national sensation with his unique antics on "Monday Night Baseball." ...

Time flies. It's been almost fifty years since Mark Fidrych's rookie season, when he took the baseball and card-collecting world by storm. Nicknamed "The Bird" because of his resemblance to Big Bird, ...

Today, we're going to discuss one of my favorite baseball players of all time. He was a flash in the pan who was set for a ...

This is Diana Nyad for KCRW, and this is The Score. Mark Fidrych died this week in an accident on his farm in Massachusetts. He was only 54. The news threw me into a time machine and flashed me back ...

It's difficult to think of a better way to greet the return of baseball after its long annual hibernation than by recalling and celebrating the brief but incandescent career of Mark Steven Fidrych, or ...

NORTHBOROUGH — Mark Fidrych burned bright during his short time in the spotlight as a pitching sensation in the 1970s but the flame only dimmed slightly when he returned home to Northborough as a ...

NORTHBORO — A little more than 40 years ago almost to the day, one of this town’s native sons became the most famous athlete in America. The precise date of Mark Fidrych’s transformation into "The ...

Fifty years ago, in the summer of 1976, the nation had a big party, celebrating its 200th birthday with fireworks, parades and cookouts. As the country’s 250th birthday bash on July 4 is approaching, ...

He was 19 when the Detroit Tigers drafted him and barely a high school graduate, having been held back in second and third grade because he couldn’t read. The son of an assistant principal instead ...

The story begins at Chet’s Diner in Northborough, Mass. It begins with Mark Fidrych’s friends and family watching the most famous game he pitched, on June 28, 1976, against the New York Yankees at ...

Fidrych was one of the original rock star athletes: His on-the-mound antics included talking to the baseball, grooming the mound, aiming pitches like darts and vanquishing balls that batters managed ...

While we wait for baseball to return, Joe Posnanski will count down his top 60 moments in baseball history — think of it as a companion piece to The Baseball 100 — with a series of essays on the most ...