Rocky Colavito

Thinking back, I must have been about 10 because Dizzy Dean was still making baseball games sound like stories by Mark Twain. I was too young to care that Ol' Diz might be corrupting my English or to defend him as...

The Kansas City Royals are leading the major leagues in injuries, but they're winning anyway, thanks to the modalities

AMERICAN LEAGUE

On the last day of last season—the first year since 1959 that the Cleveland Indians had won more games than they had lost—Manager Birdie Tebbetts called a clubhouse meeting. He told his players: "Next season will be...

AMERICAN LEAGUEThe champagne for the Cellar-Bration Owner Charlie Finley has been promising his players for vacating last place was put back on ice when KANSAS CITY (4-3) moved within one game of ninth-place Boston...