Heading into the high school baseball season in the spring of 1950, Central's coaches and players knew their team might be special. Virtually the same players had captured the American Legion state ...

RICHMOND — When Nat Bates got a call that he was being inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame, he didn’t have a speech prepared, tears in his eyes or family gathered for such a coveted ...

There are certain touchstones in the first half of the 20th century for Chardon’s proud athletic tradition. One was the unbeaten 1922 football team, led at quarterback by eventual Ohio State ...

There has been considerable anxiety recently for Dick Allen and those closest to the 75-year-old Philadelphia Phillies great. Last summer, the Baseball Hall of Fame tweaked its Veterans Committee ...

The Eagles, Victoria's Hispanic baseball team, started in the 1920s. This photo, likely taken at Rio Vista, may be the earliest Eagles team photo. Portions of the picture were used to compile a photo ...

An curved arrow pointing right. During the first half of the 20th century, baseball fans thought that curve balls were an optical illusion. After all, how could a ball physically curve through air?

Imagine this: Thirty-six years ago, Vin Scully mused about his death in The Sporting News. Scully, who died Tuesday at 94, said: “Being Irish, being Catholic, from the first day I can remember, I was ...

In the mid-1950s, there was a proposal for a new home for the Brooklyn Dodgers, dubbed: the Dodger Dome, which would have sat where the Atlantic Terminal Mall is today, right near Barclays Center. The ...

Duluth Denfeld baseball coach Cal Fougner generously referred to the gap between his program’s state tournament appearances as a “lull.” Sixty-five years is one heck of a lull. Which helps to explain ...