This baseball was just any baseball until Eddie Murray hit it ... in baseball history to hit 500 home runs. The most money anybody ever got for a 500th homer ball was Mickey Mantle’s, a mere ...

The ball Eddie Murray sent over the fence for his 500th home run left its safe deposit box Tuesday morning as Baltimore Orioles fan Dan Jones prepared to trade it in for $500,000 from the founder ...

Eddie Mathews, the homer-slamming, slick-fielding third baseman who was the only Brave to play in each of the team’s three home cities--Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta--died Sunday. He was 69.