Good morning and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m novelist and punk historian Jim Ruland, and this week we’re celebrating America’s pastime. We’re currently midway through the MLB ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WREX) — In honor of Women's History Month the Rockford Public Library is celebrating Baseball Legend Maybelle Blair. She played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ...

When Steve Bratkovich of St. Paul, Minn., learned that World Series champion baseball player Bob Oldis lived in Iowa City, he knew he had to meet him. Bratkovich was growing up in western Pennsylvania ...

It was hardly a confrontation with Ted Williams or Mickey Mantle, but Carl Scheib will take any opportunity to grab a baseball and recount what can only be described as a special stretch in ...

MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: This is KPBS Midday Edition, I am Maureen Cavanaugh. San Diego can claim baseball legend Ted Williams as a native son, but his great days as the splendid splinter took lace in ...

It was announced on Feb. 2, 1936, that the Baseball Writers Association of America had elected Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson to the Hall of Fame in the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Baseball Hall of Famer Jimmy Collins was born to Irish immigrants Anthony and Alice Collins in Niagara Falls on Jan. 16, 1870. He and his family moved to Buffalo two years later ...

He is known by many names: The Great One, The Sandman, The Hammer of God, and Mo. Arguably the best closing pitcher in the history of the game of baseball, Rivera's life has been far from easy.