True baseball fans know the game is more than nine players, a ball and a bat. They know baseball is not unlike life: a game of nuance, strategy, chance and sometimes great beauty and great sadness.

Many of us dream of being the hero in a baseball game. Bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, the world championship on the line. The pitch. The swing. The hit … and it’s gone! What makes dreams so ...

Back in 1971, an all-star team from the Linthicum Ferndale Youth Athletic Association baseball program made it to the championship game of the Bronco World Series. More than half a century later, 11 ...

Major League Baseball faced a shutdown during World War II. Rosters were filled with old veterans and teenagers just to keep games alive. Naturally, the level of play declined. In those tight times, ...

They will play the All-Star Game in Atlanta a week from Tuesday night and even though it’s not the Midsummer Classic that it once was, for a whole lot of different reasons, it is still the best ...

Charlie Faust demonstrated that a Kansas farmer could help a baseball team, specifically the New York Giants, win a pennant. Baseball fans long forgot Faust’s story until it was recounted by former ...

When Dillon Souvignier came out for Fairview’s baseball team as a freshman, Knights coach David Castillo immediately took note of the kid’s slight build. “He was so tiny,” Castillo recalled with a ...