As a teenager, Jim Bark would wait outside the visiting teams clubhouse at County Stadium in Milwaukee hoping to get an autograph from some of his favorite baseball players. The Racine, Wisconsin ...

Pittsburgh Pirates coach Gene Baker became the first black manager in major league baseball history. Otherwise, it was an ...

When the Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays report to work mid-February, they begin six weeks of practices ...

This year’s tournament features plenty of current and former MLB talent as Albert Pujols looks to bring home the glory for ...

Lynn Brunelle and Jason Chin, author and illustrator of “Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall,” were named ...

When the great Roberto Clemente was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973, shortly after his tragic death in a plane crash, he became the first Latino player to get a plaque in ...

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Oh, we can bat around, as a matter of course ... No, not that he’s necessarily “better” than Babe Ruth or Willie Mays or Roberto Clemente. He’s simply singular, as his Cooperstown dossier ...

It’s tempting to say Ichiro Suzuki, with his detached sense of cool, record-breaking hitting prowess and 28 seasons of excellence on both sides of the globe, was made for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

135/.195/.216 in 12 games for Indios de Mayaguez of Puerto Rico’s Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente. Though the numbers have been rough lately, there’s little harm for the Padres ...