1977 — The expansion Toronto Blue Jays began their major league odyssey with a 9-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox at Toronto’s Exhibition Stadium. Al Woods, pinch hitting for Steve Bowling in the ...
Seton Catholic baseball players and coaches went their separate ways for spring break with plans to reconvene near the end of the week to prepare for two challenging non-league games.
A century before the torpedo, there was the bottle bat. We've got that and more of this week's timely and timeless elements ...
1971 — Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hits a home run on Opening Day, marking the start of a historic streak. Mays will hit home runs in each of the Giants’ first four games.
Jackson Merrill, their 21-year-old center fielder who just began his second big-league season, has agreed to a nine-year ...
Torpedo bats are just the latest innovation in the design of baseball bats, some of which stuck, and others which ... did not ...
Two big questions about MLB’s ‘torpedo’ bats. Similar to how Hemingway described bankruptcy in “The Sun Also Rises,” ...
With no portraits of Rhode Island theologian Roger Williams to go by, sculptor based image on the Splendid Splinter ...
Most of these baseball books are from a time before football supplanted baseball as our national game … a time when all but ...
Major League Baseball's 2025 Opening Day is less than a week away. As such, it is never too early to keep tabs on each team's Opening Day starter. These announcements have come in throughout ...
Gage Harrelson recorded three RBI on two hits to lead Florida State baseball to its second ACC ... FSU kept its foot on the gas with Max Williams hitting a two-RBI bases-loaded single of his ...
TAMPA, Fla. — Carlos Carrasco's impressive spring performance has earned the right-hander a major league contract with New York and a spot in the Yankees' rotation. The Yankees have signed ...