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

A winning streak can redefine a season, fuel belief and blur the line between dominance and destiny. In MLB history, a few ...

From Dave Winfield to Jackson Merrill, Padres history is lined with highly awaited debuts. But what about those debut games ...

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 ...

In baseball, statistics offer the comfort of order and certainty, though their greatest power is as a proxy for legacy. Mere symbols on a page — 61*, 714, .406 — make it possible to reach back in time ...

A look at the elite African-American players in Major League Baseball history reads like a who’s who of the upper rungs of Cooperstown. These are pioneering stars not only on the diamond but also in ...

Picking the top 25 outfielders in Major League Baseball history is a very difficult task because there are so many great players to choose from. In terms of career Wins Above Replacement (WAR), six of ...

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 ...

October 1 is always a significant day for Major League Baseball. At the top of the list is that it signifies that playoff baseball is either already being played or is very near. For die-hard baseball ...

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 ...