Baseball and football share a common heritage, with ballparks hosting bowl games since the 1960s. This year sees five college ...

You needn't be a historian to recognize the 1960s as America's game-changing decade in the second half of the 20th century. The civil rights movement, rock music, assassinations, Vietnam, the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Bill Leff discusses some of the great ...

In honor of the dog days of summer, books about dogs, vacation and baseball are featured in this week’s Professor Parsons’ Picks silent auction, sponsored by the Friends of A.K. Smiley Public Library.

Apr. 5—From the 1920s to the 1960s, baseball was divided. Jackie Robinson may have broken the color barrier in 1947, but it took a long time before Major League Baseball was a welcome place for anyone ...

(Note: Last year, I wrote "One Entire Season of Baseball From the 1970s," reviewing the 1971 season. My goal is to repeat the exercise every summer, selecting a different decade. We'll present the ...