Richie Ashburn

Aspiring author Ted Geisel's first manuscript was rejected 28 times, prompting him to reflect, years later, "When you're in a slump/You're not in for much fun./Un-Slumping yourself/Is not easily done." (The writer,...

1 Bob GibsonCardinals' two-time Cy Young winner

Thirty years ago, the newborn New York Mets made baseball history of the most dubious kind

Even though I had been a pitcher during my professional baseball career, when I was invited to play in an Equitable Old-Timers' game at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium last summer, the fantasies I began to have were...

From corking to Wonderboy, here is everything you ever wanted to know about baseball bats—and then Some