An article about the first “modern” baseball club, the New York Knickerbockers, being founded by Alexander Cartwright on 23 September 1845... (Read More)
An article about Henry “Hank” Aaron breaking Babe Ruth’s home run record with his 715th blast on 8 April 1974 at home in Atlanta, Georgia... (Read More)
An article about the “Black Sox” scandal; eight Chicago White Sox baseball players were indicted for participating in “fixing” the 1919 World Series... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to learn more about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.. (Read More)
An article about Jim Thorpe, an athletically-gifted Native American who was perhaps the greatest athlete in American history... (Read More)
An article about Major League Baseball’s American League implementing a new rule, the designated hitter, on 6 April 1973... (Read More)
An article about the 1903 World Series, baseball’s first, when the Boston Americans (later the Red Sox) defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates... (Read More)
An article about baseball’s first All Star Game, played on 6 July 1933 and won for the American League almost single-handedly by Babe Ruth... (Read More)
It is a cliché to say that a ballclub is a “team of destiny,” but if anyone deserves that title it would be manager Leo Durocher’s 1951 New York Giants baseball team. That’s the club that won the National League pennant in the last inning of the last playoff game on Bobby Thomson’s three-run... (Read More)
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