While some users remembered Ruth and praised the legend in the comments, others highlighted that he died of cancer and smoked a lot. Ruth made the calls even before hitting some of his own home runs.

Race and the color line have played a central role in baseball history. One of the most well-known stories of the game’s past is Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the color line in 1947. Every year, Major ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Three years in the making, you can now see more than 200 hand-painted portraits of Negro Leagues players and key figures at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. The exhibit called ...

Jackie Robinson was the first non-white baseball player to make a team. In 1946, the entire league was White, but in 1947 that all changed. Branch Rickey, the then-Brooklyn Dodgers executive, decided ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jackie Robinson was the ...

Even in the off-season, baseball is still on my mind. This isn’t anything new for me. I proudly serve on the board of directors for the Wareham Gatemen of the Cape Cod Baseball League. But this year ...

Green was the first thing that caught the eye and captured the imagination at Yankee Stadium. For generations, and possibly still today, the bright and pristine yards and yards of green grass created ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Earlier this month, the Seattle Mariners fired their manager, Lloyd McClendon, the ...

Probably one of SNK's most known series on any game system has to be the Baseball Stars series. Starting on the NES and moving on to becoming the Neo Geo arcade and home system's most popular sports ...