On April 26, 1941, peals of organ music rang out across a baseball stadium for the first time. Soon the ballpark organist was ...

Nearly 200 students from across southern Illinois spent part of their school day on Thursday learning about Negro Leagues ...

Baseball has grown far from its home in Cooperstown, New York, becoming a beloved international game. The United States and Japan are hosts to the two most popular professional baseball leagues today, ...

Professional baseball was born with the formation of the barnstorming Cincinnati Red Stockings on this day in history, March 15, 1869. "The onset of professionalism was no small step for baseball: ...

Iowa is home to the original “Field of Dreams,” but the story of how baseball first came to the state is the topic of a free presentation Sunday in Atlantic. John Liepa, a history professor at Des ...

“My dad was a big Lakers fan,” Kobe Shaquille Robinson told me, indulging an admittedly obvious question. Robinson was born in 2001, in the middle of Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal’s ...

The top players from around the globe are stepping back into the batter’s box for the World Baseball Classic. Twenty squads will battle over a two-week span for the title of best baseball nation on ...

Willie Mays, perhaps the greatest player in baseball history, died on Tuesday night at the age of 93. He was a Hall of Fame center fielder and a 24-time All-Star best known for his two decade-plus ...