Ron Schilling, long-time Columbus area baseball coach and manager, was recently inducted into the Nebraska Baseball Hall of ...

At the cash register at Walgreens, I place five items on the counter: a copy of The New York Times, a can of shaving cream, a new pair of readers and two packs of Big League Chew bubble gum. As the ...

1914 - After being ejected for swearing, Braves shortstop Johnny Evers claims he was talking to the ball and not umpire Mal Eason. He will still receive a three-day suspension. 1935 - The Braves snap ...

To understand Dan Wright’s mood that Monday night 20 years ago, it is perhaps an adage uttered years before by legendary Major League Baseball pitcher/pitching coach/philosopher Johnny Sain that sums ...

A GRIP ON SPORTS • How many of you have read “Ball Four?” A show of hands please. One, two, three … OK, just about everyone. Why is that important today? Simple. Seattle Pilots. Lou Piniella.

MORGANTOWN — It was Jim Bouton, the baseball pitcher who laid open the hidden side of the game with his 1970 diary, “Ball Four,” who made perhaps the most telling observation on the games people play ...

If you thought questions about Luka Doncic’s conditioning would disappear just because Nico Harrison no longer pushes the narrative, you’d be mistaken. A couple of recent NBA insider reports, ...

I recently started the seminal baseball book Ball Four, Jim Bouton's diary of the 1969 season. As the book opens, Bouton is staring down the last days of his career. He was a young star for a couple ...

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1933 — Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators made his major league debut with five hits in a 12-inning, 11-10 win over the Chicago White Sox. 1939 — The Cleveland Indians beat the Philadelphia ...

There’s a scene in the first-rate newspaper movie “Spotlight” in which Marty Baron, the incoming editor of the Boston Globe, is reading a book while waiting to meet one of his new lieutenants. The guy ...

This former Yankee pitcher, who wrote the sports tell-all template Ball Four, has a self-conscious voice that almost stifles this compelling story of Pittsfield, Mass., residents resisting a new ...