John T. Brush

A sufferer from locomotor ataxia, a painful disease of the nervous…
Jack Brickhouse (Trading Card Database)

Jack Brickhouse

Jack Brickhouse, a broadcaster best known for covering Chicago…

Baseball Integration, 1947-1986

In early 2007 major league baseball marked the 60th anniversary…
Walter Dilbeck

Global League

Major League Baseball’'s revenue generating power exploded during…

Dover Hall Club

The idea of a winter retreat appealed to many in the baseball…
James (Nixey) Callahan

Logan Squares

In the midst of a successful career in the major leagues, Jim…
Shoeless Joe Jackson (BlackBetsy.com)

Bethlehem Steel League

Organized Baseball faced challenges on several fronts during…

Joe Hardy

Every so often there comes a phenom who streaks across the baseball…

Cuban League

Editor's note: This article was published in 2016. The popular…

Ball Four

Nearly a half-century after its publication, one does not encounter…

Manikin Baseball Indicator

With the weather turning crisp in October of 1916, sports fans…

Salerno/Valentine Case

Baseball traveled through rough waters beginning in the late…

The Sporting News

The Sporting News is the oldest sporting publication in the United…
Comiskey Park (Courtesy of the Chicago White Sox)

Comiskey Park (Chicago)

Circa turn of the Twentieth Century’s industrial post-war boom.…

Jarry Park (Montreal)

Rinky-dink in a most charming way, Jarry Park — or Parc Jarry…

Manhattan Field (New York)

For about a decade near the turn of the last century, now forgotten…

Sulphur Dell (Nashville)

The ballpark was a magnet. It drew boys like Walter Nipper, long…

West End Park (Milwaukee)

No major Organized Baseball clubs played in Milwaukee from 1871…

Eclipse Park (Louisville, KY)

Following the demise of Louisville's National League franchise…

Swayne Field (Toledo, OH)

In 1955 Toledo, Ohio, suffered the double indignity of losing…

Congress Street Grounds (Boston)

The Congress Street Grounds in Boston had a short, but illustrious,…
Armory Park, 1913 (Courtesy of John Husman)

Armory Park (Toledo, OH)

  It seems that baseball has many fathers. Perhaps, for…

Federal League Park (St. Louis)

While the American League Browns played at old Sportsman's Park,…

Red Stockings Park (St. Louis)

A little-known, but significant site of early professional baseball…
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