Baseball

It’s a clean slate for all of Major League Baseball’s teams as Spring Training kicks off. It’s Spring Training, people! March 20 officially kicks off the first day of spring and the snow and cold that hit the nation this winter has many already counting down the days. For sports ...

Though Jackie Robinson deservedly gets all of the credit for breaking baseball’s insidious color barrier, Ernie Banks did the same thing for his fans and the city of Chicago. Baseball and Chicago lost one of its greatest ambassadors recently when Hall of Famer Ernie Banks died at the age of ...

George Herman Ruth There are few names in the history of baseball that produce as much respect as that of Babe Ruth. Known as a Yankee slugger, George Herman Ruth, Jr. hit 714 home runs had 2,213 runs batted in and a slugging percentage of .690. These numbers have set ...

With Major League Baseball here, still frozen baseball fans can finally warm up Growing up near Chicago, the thought of spring training baseball as a kid provided warmth on cold and snowy days. If you could see warm weather in another part of the country, spring and summer couldn’t be ...