2006 — Julio Franco became the oldest player in major league history to hit a home run when he hit a two-run, pinch-hit shot ...

2001 — Barry Bonds became the 17th major leaguer to hit 500 home runs. Bonds’ two-run, eighth-inning drive off Terry Adams ...

More than a century later ... last Black player to play on a Major League team until Robinson permanently broke the color line in 1947. For six decades, baseball was segregated.

Team USA has its leadership in place ahead of the 2026 World Baseball Classic. On Thursday, USA Baseball announced that Mark ...

society's shrinking attention span and big-money marketing concerns creep into Major League Baseball. The sport, which had been virtually untouched from the turn of the 20th century, has seen a ...

Picking winners is always challenging, but picking last-place teams is easier than ever: the White Sox, Marlins, Rockies and Angels all figure to be horrible and seem destined to finish at the ...

There are still seven months and 2,428 regular season games to go in Major League Baseball ... All That Is Wrong, given that he joined a massive-market, perennially prosperous team and signed ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Octavio Dotel, who pitched for 13 major league teams ... Baseball is deeply saddened by the passings of Octavio Dotel, Tony Blanco, Nelsy Cruz, and all ...

The team, decimated by injuries to its rotation, needed a major-league-ready starting pitcher ... The Chicago Cubs’ 9-6 start is all the more impressive considering the difficulty of the ...