It is tempting to ponder how the 1984 Cubs would have fared if the team hadn't traded Willie Hernandez to the Phillies for Dick Ruthven the year before. But the Cubs already had a closer in future ...

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Reasonable people can disagree about Mayor Anthony Williams's latest plan for bringing professional baseball back to Washington. Unfortunately, a lot of the discussion so far has been based on ...

Their pitcher, Dakota "stilts" Albritton, stands 10 feet tall. Their owner, Jesse Cole, wears a bright-yellow tuxedo, akin to Theodore Shackleford's getup in the "Curious George" cartoons. And to top ...

Mike Marshall, the first relief pitcher to win a Cy Young Award, died Monday. He was 78. He had been receiving hospice care at his home in Zephyrhills, Fla., his daughter Rebekah told the Dodgers. She ...

Professional baseball was filled with famous hitters in the 1930s. Men such as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig could be counted on for homers and RBIs. Pitchers had their hands full facing them. Carl Hubbell ...

The pitch has become baseball’s version of The Dress. Is it gold? Or is it blue? Is it a changeup? Is it a screwball? Or, maybe the most intriguing choice of them all, is it a mashup that has become ...

The Athenaeum’s Flicks on the Bricks returns this month for its 15th year with the best Screwball Sparring Matches. Once again La Jolla's Athenaeum has asked me to curate and host its Flicks of the ...