Here we go again. Baseball has been hit with another scandal, undoubtedly the biggest since the so-called Steroid Era…

Unlike many of today’s players, yesterday’s sluggers, including Ted Williams, were not musclebound. But they still did pretty well…

Editor’s Note: If you’re concerned about the trend today’s game is on, I urge you to read Bill Gutman’s blog post today. What Bill has uncovered in his research is unsettling and a cause for concern for all of us who love the game…

On numbers alone, former Cardinals outfielder Curt Flood does not belong in the Hall of Fame. It’s true that Flood was an excellent ballplayer…

The one would almost be funny if it wasn’t so frightening…

It’s really an open secret, one that Major League Baseball seems to ignore. But for how long?…

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Well, they’re at it again. While Major League baseball continues to be fixated on speeding up the game, they’re also finally taking heed about the lack of action…

Just recently, I wrote about baseball’s attempt to limit the length of extra-inning games by implementing the rather un-baseball-like rule of putting a runner on second base to begin the tenth inning..

When we were kids we always got excited when a ballgame went into extra innings. And why not?…

 It’s one of baseball’s magical, yet elusive numbers. So elusive that it hasn’t been achieved in 80 years, not since the great Ted Williams finished the 1941 season with a .406 batting average…

All longtime baseball fans have vivid memories of how it all started, whether it be collecting baseball cards, watching games on television, playing ball with your friends,

There has been a lot of talk about the shift in baseball this spring, including here in these pages. Some feel it should be banned, others vote for modifying it,

Well, they’re at it again. While Major League Baseball continues to be fixated on speeding up the game, they’re also finally taking heed about the lack of action caused by fewer balls being put in play during a ballgame…

Once upon a time, many years ago, there was a pre-game baseball show that actually brought young baseball players of Little League age to the ballpark…

Just recently, a friend forwarded me a story that appeared in the Washington Post back in May of 2019…

For as long as most of us can remember, the basic rules of baseball haven’t really changed much since we discovered the game…

Here we see “Double-X” teasing “The Splendid Splinter” about his scrawny biceps. There was a time when many baseball players had colorful nicknames that followed them their entire careers. Some of them weren’t exactly flattering, but they stuck.

For longtime baseball fans like us, the game has always meant a great deal and we’ve been watching it for as long as we can remember…

It started when I wrote a blog about baseball’s National Anthem, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” I followed it with another blog, highlighting the Music of Baseball, four classic tunes about our great game…

As Yogi would say, it’s deja view all over again. Another season is arriving and we will be presented with a game that is called baseball, but one that is increasingly foreign to longtime fans…

To most longtime fans, baseball is still the greatest game every invented. Not only do we relish what happens between the lines, but we’ve always loved the numbers – the stats and the records…

 I don’t think any of you will dispute the fact that baseball today is just as much – or maybe more – about the money as it is about the game on the field…