Baseball

In March 1999, the Baltimore Orioles played a team of Cuban all-stars, the first time a major league baseball team from the United States had pl...

In 1960, Major League Baseball reached a crossroads in its history. Facing a challenge from the Continental Baseball League, the owners of the orig...

The first African American to play in baseball's recognized major leagues, William Edward White, appeared in 1879, followed by brothers Fleetwood a...

Between 1870 and 2010, 165 Jewish Americans have played Major League baseball. This work presents oral histories featuring 23 of these Jewish majo...

Hal Trosky played first base (and was team captain) for the Cleveland Indians during the Great Depression. His career stretched from the heyday ...

Billy Southworth was the most successful major league baseball manager of the 1940s including the three straight years in which his St. Louis Ca...

This is an oral history of the Latin American baseball leagues of the mid-20th century. Interviews with dozens of former major league players, w...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Montreal Expos provided their fans with spectacular play produced by spectacular players. The team was ab...

The 1957 PCL season faced uncertainty about the pending invasion of major league baseball in 1958. While the meetings, wheeling and dealing and pol...

Professional baseball is full of arcane team names. The Los Angeles Dodgers, for instance, owe their nickname to the trolley tracks that honeyco...

Buck Ewing (1859-1906) was regarded by contemporaries as the greatest catcher and all-around player of his era. A lifetime .300-hitter, he playe...

This reference work is in two parts. The first is a biographical dictionary of the 325 men who played in the National Association between 1871 a...

One of major league baseball's first Native American stars, John Tortes Chief Meyers (1880-1971) was the hard-hitting, award-winning catcher for J...

This ambitious study of major league managers since the formation of the National League applies a sabermetric approach to gauging their perform...

Major League Baseball has compiled the definitive instruction manual on learning to play the game. Fully illustrated with action photos of MLB star...

On August 16, 1920, Yankees pitcher Carl Mays threw a fastball that struck Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman in the head. Chapman died the ne...

Despite his outstanding pitching record, James Francis Pud Galvin (1856-1902) was largely forgotten after his premature death. During his 18-yea...

In descriptions of athletes, the word hero is bandied about and liberally attached to players with outstanding statistics and championship rings. ...

Most San Francisco Giants fans have taken in a game or two at AT&T Park, have seen highlights of Willie Mays' basket catch on YouTube, and were...

How good was Negro League Baseball (1920-1948)? Some experts maintain that the quality of play was equal to that of the American and National Le...

For more than a decade, Tim Raines patrolled left field for the nascent Montreal Expos, igniting the powder keg of what would become one of the mos...

Most Blue Jays fans have taken in a game or two at Rogers Centre, remember where they were when Joe Carter hit his World Serieswinning home run in ...