The Kansas City Athletics had a sordid history to bring to Oakland when they arrived in 1968, and Bay Area baseball fans didn't know what to expect from the American League team that had once been a ...

Was it Sunday that Baseball honored Jackie Robinson? Was it any day that Baseball really honored Jackie Robinson? Oh, they stood him out there on the mound that Sunday in Cincinnati, less than two ...

Dick Allen, who won the American League’s Most Valuable Player award in 1972 with the Chicago White Sox, has passed away at the age of 78, his family announced Monday. Allen hit 351 home runs and ...

Richard Nixon was president. Tensions surrounding school busing for desegregation were high. “The Godfather” film was a week away from release. But one Orlando Sentinel item from the spring of 1972 ...

Hall of Famer Rich Gossage is introduced during the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2014. [Source: Getty Images] Back in 2014 while discussing the players' strikes, Hall of Famer Goose ...

In 1972, anti-war protesters were tearing up their draft cards, the women’s liberation movement was seen as a threat to the traditional family and baseball endured its first players strike. On the ...

Editor’s note: The Milford Post 59 American Legion team is honoring the 1970 and 1972 state champions on “Alumni Recognition Night” prior to the team’s July 10 game (7 p.m.) against Shrewsbury at Fino ...

The Washington Nationals named 33-year-old Blake Butera as their new manager on Friday, making him Major League Baseball's ...

“Comic book characters never grow old,” Elton John once sang to a Bernie Taupin lyric. Too bad that’s not the case for the rest of us, major league players included. 2020 was a tough year for the ...

Fourteen years ago, Blake Butera played second base in the Point Stadium with the New Orleans Boosters in the AAABA Tournament.