While some users remembered Ruth and praised the legend in the comments, others highlighted that he died of cancer and smoked a lot. Ruth made the calls even before hitting some of his own home runs.

Race and the color line have played a central role in baseball history. One of the most well-known stories of the game’s past is Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the color line in 1947. Every year, Major ...

Jackie Robinson was the first non-white baseball player to make a team. In 1946, the entire league was White, but in 1947 that all changed. Branch Rickey, the then-Brooklyn Dodgers executive, decided ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Earlier this month, the Seattle Mariners fired their manager, Lloyd McClendon, the ...

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES: (FILES)This undated file photo shows US baseball star Jackie Robinson as he signs a then-record contract to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers in New York. Robinson has been chosen ...

April 15 marks the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier, becoming its first Black player, and changing the game forever. Although Robinson will forever be ...

On Monday, May 24 at 7pm, Michael J. Billoni and James Overfield, respective publisher and editor of The Seasons of Buffalo Baseball 1857-2020 (SOBB), will present a ground-breaking, virtual event ...

Pedro “Charrascas” Ramírez was born more than a century ago and he concedes his eyesight is fading and his knees ache when he climbs the narrow 15-step staircase to his breezy second-story apartment ...

It was 100 years ago Monday that two new players took to the field for baseball's Cincinnati Reds. Both were born in Cuba, and were among the first Latinos to play in the big leagues. Rob Ruck, author ...

Now that baseball has returned, Joe Posnanski will count down his top 10 moments in baseball history across the 10 weeks of the scheduled regular season — think of it as a companion piece to The ...

The Cincinnati Reds’ then-manager Dusty Baker is introduced before a National League wild card playoff baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in October 2013. (Charles LeClaire / USA Today) By ...