Baseball
Vida Blue Was a Baseball Comet
The bright lights would come soon enough. On that May night in 1970, at the old ballpark at the confluence...
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Vida Blue, Pitching Sensation for Champion A’s Teams, Dies at 73
Vida Blue, who in his first full season with the Oakland Athletics in 1971 threw an unhittable fastball and became...
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Chris Rowley’s Journey from West Point to the Toronto Blue Jays to Law School
When throbbing pain developed in his shoulder, Chris Rowley, the only graduate of the U.S. Military Academy to play in...
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Yogi Berra on the Field: The Case for Baseball Greatness
In the latest edition of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, there’s a sports figure who towers over the competition.Among the nine sayings...
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Andrew McCutchen Is Thriving in Return to Pittsburgh Pirates
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — For a Pittsburgh Pirates fan born in the 1990s, childhood was an endless string of losing...
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The Rays Are Better Than Everyone. At Everything.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Rays had just won again Tuesday night, but their architect was flustered by...
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Justin Verlander’s Return Bolsters Mets Even With a Loss
In Justin Verlander’s first start of the season, he pitched like an ace.No, he wasn’t particularly dominant. And no, the...
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Oakland A’s Fans Want Team to Sell Rather Than Move to Las Vegas
OAKLAND, Calif. — Sitting in the Oakland Athletics’ dugout last week, Tony Kemp could not avoid the sights and sounds...
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Mike Shannon, a St. Louis Cardinal for Life, Dies at 83
Mike Shannon, who played in three World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals and then became a favorite of the...
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Padres Dominate Giants in MLB’s Mexico City Series
MEXICO CITY — A day before Major League Baseball played regular-season games here for the first time, Nick Martinez, a...
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