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 ...

ALL SHORES -- When I graduated from PS 45 in 1960, one of my teachers, Mrs. Humphries, wrote in my autograph album, “I hope you grow up a bit, Robert. You were a handful.” Not exactly a reassuring ...

After 68 years, the 1950 Tufts baseball team — participants in the College World Series (CWS) in Omaha, Neb. that June — will be immortalized. The team will be part of the inaugural class inducted ...

In the 1950s, Major League Baseball reigned over American sports and New York City served as its castle. Boasting three MLB teams — the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants and New York Yankees — the ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

Six B.C. athletes have been selected to play in the inaugural edition of the Women's Pro Baseball League in 2026. They're ...

Handsome Ransom Jackson: Accidental Big Leaguer by Ransom Jackson Jr. with Gaylon H. White, Rowman & Littlefield, 262 pages, $34 If you remember the name Ransom Jackson, it’s probably from a 1950s ...

The 1950s failed to produce any significant April snowstorms, so we believe you are remembering the 6.8-inch snowstorm of April 15-17, 1961, when the heavy, wet snow was piled into 5- to 10-foot-high ...