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 ...

Across more than a century of MLB play, certain stretches of defeat went beyond bad luck, becoming defining moments that ...

An idle conversation during a board meeting for the Watkins Museum of History sparked an idea that could breathe new life ...

The book combines Olszewski’s background in public service, academia and business with his lifelong passion for America’s ...

America's “greatest pastime” as captured in the collections. For more see Baseball: America's Homerun from the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum and ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues: En ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Corbin Carroll has made history, becoming the first Asian American to win a rookie of the year award in Major League Baseball history. Carroll, 23, won the National ...

NEW YORK CITY - OCTOBER 25: Bill Buckner of the Boston Red Sox made an error at the bottom of the 10 inning, in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series at Shea Stadium on ...

Today, on the final day of 2025, we take a look back at just some of the baseball people -- players, managers and executives ...