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The Mariners slugger is making history with every blast. Here's how his year stacks up with other shocking breakouts.
Negro League Legends Hall of Fame event celebrates African-Americans in baseball. Darryl Barnes and Jimmy O. Williams discuss their journeys and goals.
Strange as it may seem in retrospect, Ned Jarrett wasn’t the outright pre-race favorite when the odds were drawn for the Southern 500 in 1965. Other flat-footed drivers were considered harder chargers ...
A journeyman pitcher who helped the Detroit Tigers win the 1968 World Series has died, the team announced Thursday.
1985 — Don Baylor of the New York Yankees set an American League record when he was hit by a pitch for the 190th time in his career. Baylor was struck by California Angels pitcher Kirk McCaskill in ...
1977— Cleveland’s Duane Kuiper hit a one-out solo home run in the first inning off Chicago’s Steve Stone at Municipal Stadium. It was Kuiper’s only homer in 3,379 career at-bats — the fewest homers in ...
Paige was 59 years old when he made his final MLB appearance on Sept. 25, 1965, a record that might never be broken. However, that's not to take away from Hill and the other durable players across the ...
Zeeland native Jim Kaat was elected to the Michigan Baseball Hall on same weekend he was in Minnesota celebrating 60th ...
This is a significant anniversary of this event — exactly six decades since this no-hitter — so I thought today would be a good time to re-visit it, especially since there’s an hour’s worth of video, ...
Throughout this summer, we’ve taken a 60 th anniversary look-back at the 1965 World Series. We’ve seen the Minnesota Twins jump out to a commanding lead, the Los Angeles Dodgers roar back at Chavez ...
It was an August night in 2006, and an aging Shea Stadium was packed. Standing behind a podium near second base, Mets radio voice Howie Rose looked back at the crowd, the more than 57,000 fans ...