Heading into the high school baseball season in the spring of 1950, Central's coaches and players knew their team might be special. Virtually the same players had captured the American Legion state ...

In the 1950s, Major League Baseball reigned over American sports and New York City served as its castle. Boasting three MLB teams — the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants and New York Yankees — the ...

After 68 years, the 1950 Tufts baseball team — participants in the College World Series (CWS) in Omaha, Neb. that June — will be immortalized. The team will be part of the inaugural class inducted ...

RICHMOND — When Nat Bates got a call that he was being inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame, he didn’t have a speech prepared, tears in his eyes or family gathered for such a coveted ...

The Eagles, Victoria's Hispanic baseball team, started in the 1920s. This photo, likely taken at Rio Vista, may be the earliest Eagles team photo. Portions of the picture were used to compile a photo ...

There are certain touchstones in the first half of the 20th century for Chardon’s proud athletic tradition. One was the unbeaten 1922 football team, led at quarterback by eventual Ohio State ...

An curved arrow pointing right. During the first half of the 20th century, baseball fans thought that curve balls were an optical illusion. After all, how could a ball physically curve through air?

I’ve been writing about the Rockies on several sites, including My Team Rivals, My own site, the Rockies Reporter, as well as the Bleacher Report. At the Bleacher Report, I’m already moving up the ...

In the mid-1950s, there was a proposal for a new home for the Brooklyn Dodgers, dubbed: the Dodger Dome, which would have sat where the Atlantic Terminal Mall is today, right near Barclays Center. The ...

It happened every spring in the late 1950s and early '60s. A bunch of us would coast down Hill Street on our bikes, turn left at the bottom and ride two blocks to Henry's Market. There we emptied our ...

Duluth Denfeld baseball coach Cal Fougner generously referred to the gap between his program’s state tournament appearances as a “lull.” Sixty-five years is one heck of a lull. Which helps to explain ...