The year 2022 has thus far occasioned nothing but uncertainty insofar as Major League Baseball is concerned. Thanks to the owner lockout, the sport is stalled at a time when free agents should be ...
Don Kessinger belted a two-run homer to lead the Cubs to a 7-3 win over Cleveland in an exhibition game in New Orleans on March 31, 1972. But an exhibition of a different kind was taking place that ...
The Kansas City Athletics had a sordid history to bring to Oakland when they arrived in 1968, and Bay Area baseball fans didn't know what to expect from the American League team that had once been a ...
Was it Sunday that Baseball honored Jackie Robinson? Was it any day that Baseball really honored Jackie Robinson? Oh, they stood him out there on the mound that Sunday in Cincinnati, less than two ...
Dick Allen, who won the American League’s Most Valuable Player award in 1972 with the Chicago White Sox, has passed away at the age of 78, his family announced Monday. Allen hit 351 home runs and ...
Hall of Famer Rich Gossage is introduced during the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2014. [Source: Getty Images] Back in 2014 while discussing the players' strikes, Hall of Famer Goose ...
IRONTON, Ohio (WSAZ) - For those who were part of the 1972 Ironton Fighting Tiger baseball team, the memories of that season are still vivid. On Tuesday, Jim Tordiff and Jimmy Payne recalled some of ...
Richard Nixon was president. Tensions surrounding school busing for desegregation were high. “The Godfather” film was a week away from release. But one Orlando Sentinel item from the spring of 1972 ...
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Dick Allen, who won the 1972 American League MVP award with the White Sox, is one of eight Classic Baseball Era Committee finalists up for election to the Baseball Hall of Fame’s ...
The Washington Nationals named 33-year-old Blake Butera as their new manager on Friday, making him Major League Baseball's youngest manager since 1972. "I am incredibly honored to be named the manager ...