The year 2022 has thus far occasioned nothing but uncertainty insofar as Major League Baseball is concerned. Thanks to the owner lockout, the sport is stalled at a time when free agents should be ...
Don Kessinger belted a two-run homer to lead the Cubs to a 7-3 win over Cleveland in an exhibition game in New Orleans on March 31, 1972. But an exhibition of a different kind was taking place that ...
IRONTON, Ohio (WSAZ) - For those who were part of the 1972 Ironton Fighting Tiger baseball team, the memories of that season are still vivid. On Tuesday, Jim Tordiff and Jimmy Payne recalled some of ...
Dick Allen, who won the American League’s Most Valuable Player award in 1972 with the Chicago White Sox, has passed away at the age of 78, his family announced Monday. Allen hit 351 home runs and ...
The road to Moeller High School's first state championship in baseball 50 years ago was not an easy one. Then again, a broken-down bus is a difficult curve for any ball team. Driven by future Moeller ...
Richard Nixon was president. Tensions surrounding school busing for desegregation were high. “The Godfather” film was a week away from release. But one Orlando Sentinel item from the spring of 1972 ...
Marvin Miller wanted to take the temperature of the baseball players in the room, so he decided to play devil’s advocate. Maybe it wasn’t the right time to strike, the executive director of the Major ...
“Comic book characters never grow old,” Elton John once sang to a Bernie Taupin lyric. Too bad that’s not the case for the rest of us, major league players included. 2020 was a tough year for the ...