Baseball, more than any other sport, is grounded in history, built on legend, an enduring portal into the past. So it made a certain sense in 1999 when Major League Baseball’s ninth commissioner, Bud ...

Baseball is as American as hot dogs, peanuts and beer, and summer sunburn. But baseball is also spectacularly northern and Alaskan. How about a night game, with no lights? Happens in the land of the ...

On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to follow as ...

A look at the elite African-American players in Major League Baseball history reads like a who’s who of the upper rungs of Cooperstown. These are pioneering stars not only on the diamond but also in ...

The national pastime took the familiar format that baseball fans know today, with nine players per team and nine innings per game, on this day in history, March 7, 1857. The adoption of uniform rules ...

At the turn of the 20th century, the majority of baseball players sported mustaches. But by the 1930s, the trimmers came out, and a fuzzy upper lip was prohibited, not explicitly, but rather via an ...

The Chicago White Sox are poised to break the record for the most losses in modern baseball history. Watching them do it has been strangely glorious. The White Sox played the Athletics at Guaranteed ...

October 1 is always a significant day for Major League Baseball. At the top of the list is that it signifies that playoff baseball is either already being played or is very near. For die-hard baseball ...