CHICAGO -- A recent trip to the Chicago Sports Museum allowed this scribe and his male spawn to do things like test their vertical leaps (existent), compare the size of their hands to those of Scottie ...

Jimmy "Jomboy" O'Brien won't be watching his beloved New York Yankees in the World Series this year. But he will be watching ...

I think we've all, at one point or another, walked into a thrift store or Goodwill and had that rush of excitement at the possible treasures we could find. As an action figure collector, there is ...

When I was growing up in the '90s, there was one guy who every young baseball player wished he could be: Ken Griffey Jr. He made baseball more exciting than anyone in the game and kept my short ...

Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein (left), Red Sox president Sam Kennedy (center) and Eddie Vedder at the Hot Stove concert at the Paradise in 2017. Baseball writers Peter ...

The Kid is pushing 50. The only baseball player whose silhouette ever made sense on a sneaker is, believe it or not, already the father of a professional athlete—and Ken Griffey Jr.’s son...is playing ...

Kwak Bin, the right-handed fastball pitcher of the Korean baseball team, will be the starting pitcher to open the door to the ...

Frustrated that NFL stars and NBA stars are more heavily promoted than baseball stars. Frustrated that the percentage of African-American players keeps falling. Frustrated that many kids do not ...

Tomorrow is opening day in Major League Baseball, a fine time as any to get all gooey about our national pastime. Hope springs eternal, and all that jazz. Nostalgia rules the day. Every team, at this ...

While the Seattle Mariners and the Toronto Blue Jays were battling it out in ALCS Game 7 to decide who will play the World ...

Baseball has a long and storied history with the arts, from theater and film to the visual arts and, yes, music. Or maybe you’ve never heard “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”? Of course, you have — as ...