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Yankees fans celebrate their win over the Kansas City Royals in the 1976 American League Championship

Why Baseball Fans Stopped Rushing the Field

On Oct. 21, 1980, a beloved tradition was put to a stop.
by Mitchell Nathanson via Slate on October 26, 2020

Black Sox Forever

Reflections on the centennial of America’s greatest sports scandal.
by Harry Stein via City Journal on September 26, 2019

How the Cubs Won

Four books contend with the lifting of the 108-year old curse.
by Jack Rakove via Public Books on October 3, 2017
Illustration of Willie Mayes holding a baseball bat, while men watch from the city.

A Giant of a Man

The legacy of Willie Mays and the Birmingham ballpark where he first made his mark.
by Eric Wills via The American Scholar on October 10, 2024
Three ring binder filled with a baseball card collection.

Batting by the Numbers

The evolution of baseball’s perfect lineup.
by Neil Paine, Michelle Pera-McGhee via The Pudding on September 24, 2024
Pete Rose on a baseball diamond, head bowed.

For Pete’s Sake

A new book traces "the rise and fall of Pete Rose, and the last glory days of baseball."
by Christopher Caldwell via The Washington Free Beacon on May 12, 2024
Christy Mathewson, a pitcher for the New York Giants from 1900-1916.

When New York Made Baseball and Baseball Made New York

The rise of the sport as we know it was centered in Gotham, where big stadiums, heroic characters, and epic sportswriting produced a pastime that bound a city together.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on March 25, 2024
Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, New York.

The Last Of The Brooklyn Dodgers

Richard Staff interviews four former Brooklyn Dodgers players, who, despite the team's move to Los Angeles, still identify with their Brooklyn roots.
by Richard Staff via Defector on February 19, 2024
Nixon, sitting in front of a Meet the Press backdrop, gestures to someone out of frame as a production crew member adjusts his chair.

The Secret History Of Richard Nixon, Mets Sicko

The less known story of Richard Nixon and his genuine love and care for his hometown team, the New York Mets.
by Richard Staff via Defector on May 19, 2022
A crowd watches a roller skater dance at block party in the Bronx.

The Stories of the Bronx

"Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin" is a vibrant cultural history that looks beyond pervasive narratives of cultural renaissance and urban neglect.
by Emily Raboteau via New York Review of Books on March 17, 2022
Roberto Clemente at bat

Pittsburgh Pirates Mark 50 Years Since Historic All-Black-and-Latino Lineup

Players, fans and authors recall the landmark 1971 starting nine.
by Bill O'Driscoll via WESA on August 30, 2021

No Opening Day Without Von Tilzer!

The Jewish Tin Pan Alley composer who wrote ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ had never been to a ballgame.
by Robert Rockaway via Tablet on April 1, 2021
Jose Altuve of the Houston Astros

What Counts, These Days, in Baseball?

As technologies of quantification and video capture grow more sophisticated, is baseball changing? Do those changes have moral implications?
by David Hinkin via Public Books on February 24, 2021

Say It Is So: Baseball’s Disgrace

The case for electing "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Pete Rose to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on February 20, 2020
Baseball player is safe as he slides into first base in the 1906 World Series.

Hand Signals

Deaf history and the birth of umpiring gestures in baseball.
by Rebecca A. R. Edwards via Perspectives on History on October 24, 2018

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