The torpedo is the talk of 2025, but bat experiments have changed baseball and created controversy for 150 years.

The New York Yankees began the 2025 season by living up to their nickname, the “Bronx Bombers.” They swept the Milwaukee Brewers in three games, March 27-29. They hit an ...

Card Collecting in the Early 1900’s Card collecting in the early 1900’s was before my time and my dad’s, but not my ...

The players from Alabama colleges, high schools, industrial leagues and sandlots who've hit 100 MLB home runs.

1974 — In the opener in Atlanta, Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s career record by hitting his 715th home run off Los Angeles left-hander Al Downing in the fourth inning. The Braves beat the Dodgers 7-4 ...

Before the 2023 season, the New York Yankees signed their superstar Aaron Judge, then 30 years old, to what was at the time ...

A century before the torpedo, there was the bottle bat. We've got that and more of this week's timely and timeless elements ...

1974 — Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth’s home-run record by hitting his 714th ... beating Tony Lema by a stroke. 1969 — Ted Williams begins managing the Washington Senators. 1985 — New Jersey’s Herschel ...

With another season of major league and minor league baseball upon us, it seems like the time is ripe to rank the 20 (or so) greatest major league achievements of former Spokane minor league players ...

It was his 714th, tying Babe Ruth’s career record ... 1969 — The Yankees spoiled the managerial debut of Ted Williams by defeating the Senators 8-4 in the opener at Washington’s RFK Stadium. President ...

Babe Ruth collapsed in a railroad station in Asheville, N.C. He would be hospitalized in New York and operated on 10 days later for an ulcer. The Mets lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3. 1969 — The ...

Ted Hesson is an immigration reporter for Reuters, based in Washington, D.C. His work focuses on the policy and politics of immigration, asylum and border security. Prior to joining Reuters in ...