Baseball Thriving in America and Overseas
Baseball has long been known as America’s pastime. In an age when football and basketball have surged in popularity, where does baseball stand? Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Bud Selig re...
This Month in Stickball History
The invention of television is complicated. TV didn’t appear fully formed in of a laboratory, but stumbled bit by bit out of the collective imaginations of tinkerers and scientists all over the wor...
Statistically, baseball is the most statistically statistical game in America and, of course, we have the statistics to support this. Cliff Stewart knows a thing or two about statistics. As part of...
Little League turns 75 The world’s largest organized youth sports program is all grown up now. Little League Baseball, founded in 1939, is prepared to celebrate its seventy-fifth anniversary this y...
Batting Practice 101… With Mariano Rivera
This month, a group of sportswriters were treated to a private batting practice as part of a promotion for New Era’s new Diamond Era cap. The writers were to stand in a batting cage at New York’s l...
Yanks Retire Their Last Single-Digit #s
2014 has already been a big year for baseball news, and that includes both Little League Baseball and the New York Yankees Franchise. This year marks the 75th anniversary celebration for Little Lea...