Walter O’Malley

Walter Francis O'Malley, the owner who dragged baseball franchises…

Bob Prince

Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Prince was a man of paradox. He…
Roland Hemond (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

Roland Hemond

Like the sea captains of an earlier era, Roland Hemond was a…

Garry Herrmann

A self-made success in the rough-and-tumble world of Cincinnati…

Jim Creighton

James Creighton was the greatest pitcher of his day. Famous principally…

L. Robert Davids

Bob Davids, a career Federal government employee, never played…

Ken Guettler

If Ken Guettler had been a used car in 1956, no one would have…

John T. Brush

A sufferer from locomotor ataxia, a painful disease of the nervous…

Mel Allen

Mel Allen was The Voice: "his boom box of a voice" – Curt…
Helene Britton, circa 1915 (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)

Helene Britton

In March 1911, with woman suffrage a popular topic in the newspapers,…

Bob Brown

A dapper Bob Brown surveys his domain from the wooden…
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…

Manhattan Field (New York)

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

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