Major League Baseball

The Interview

ON SEPT. 27, 1998, Philip Ozersky, a research scientist at the Washington University medical school in St. Louis, decided to take a break from his usual fall Sunday routine. A Rams season-ticket holder, he hadn't...

Crash and Annie didn't last, did they? Would Mötley Crüe really destroy Nuke's dreams? And how did that ritually slaughtered rooster go over in Milwaukee?

It's been half a century since the Say Hey Kid led the national pastime on its move to the West Coast. He's still a baseball man at heart, as monumental—and enigmatic—a legend as American sport has ever seen

GENE GARBER starts his days at around 4:30 every morning. Whether he's in the chicken house, out in the fields or tending to his flock of several thousand emus, the 60-year-old former reliever loves every minute of...