A clear-eyed account of a remarkable season. There is likely no image in baseball history as consummate, as metaphorically rich and breathtakingly pure, as that of Willie Mays’s backside, running down ...

Seven members of the 1954 Oregon baseball team, the last Ducks to reach the College World Series, gathered Friday at Grant High School. They collectively pieced together 58-year-old memories from that ...

As the pennant races head into the fall stretch, it's worth remembering that 60 years ago the sport of baseball was changed permanently as African-American players began to establish their presence in ...

As the pennant races head into the fall stretch, it's worth remembering that 60 years ago the sport of baseball was changed permanently as black players began to establish their presence in the major ...

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You know the rules. Each base must be touched, each ball hit within bounds — or so you hope. No spitballs, corked bats, pine tar or steroids. Four bases to run. Three strikes, you’re out. Those are ...

COLUMBIA – Ed Cook swears there is film of the first Missouri team national championship game. Cook, 79, was so curious, he traveled to Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., a few years ago. The ...

“The National Sports Collectors Convention arguably has never had a more exciting moment in its 39 years than what happened Friday in Cleveland,” wrote ESPN’s Darren Rovell on August 4. All twenty ...

As the pennant races head into the fall stretch, it's worth remembering that 60 years ago the sport of baseball was changed permanently as African-American players began to establish their presence in ...

"1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever" (Da Capo Press), by Bill Madden As the pennant races head into the fall stretch, it's ...

"1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever (Da Capo Press), by Bill Madden As the pennant races head into the fall stretch, it's ...