Branch Rickey

To Be Real

To her collection of seven Olympic medals, swimmer Amanda Beard can add the wings she earned last month when she took a ride with Kirby Chambliss, a stunt pilot who is captain of the U.S. Aerobatics team. Beard spent...

The reporting of pitchers and catchers is a sign that spring is near, and nobody does spring training like the folks at Dodgertown

CompletedThe 13 laps he failed to finish in the 2001 German 500 CART race, Alex Zanardi. On Sept. 15, 2001, Zanardi, a two-time CART champ and one of the circuit's most popular drivers, lost both of his legs in a...

On Aug. 28, 1945, a 43-year-old former catcher named Clyde Sukeforth walked into an office in Brooklyn and said, "Mr. Rickey, here is Jack Roosevelt Robinson." It was a sentence that has led historians of both...