Listening in on fans' conversations during his walks home from Wrigley Field, Theo Epstein could sense their excitement as the Chicago Cubs set themselves up to capture that long-awaited World Series championship.
Bill Buckner was an All-Star and batting champion, a gritty gamer who was welcome on any team. A reliable fielder, too. But a little grounder forever changed his legacy.
Here's the Star Tribune game report from the night Steve Carlton won his final game in the majors and his only game with the Minnesota Twins -- and talked about it afterward.
A 2017 letter from Commissioner Rob Manfred confirmed the Yankees' illicit use of electronic devices in 2015 and parts of 2016, which cost the team a $100,000 fine.
The MLB owners and players union are too entrenched to reach a labor agreement. A neutral voice, real or hard-wired, could impose a solution that doesn't allow the sport to do any further damage to itself.
Balkovec faced resistance when she first applied for strength and conditioning jobs in baseball. When she changed her first name on her résumé and applications to "Rae" from "Rachel," she started getting calls.
In San Francisco, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Tampa and so many other cities across the country, major league baseball teams have been a joy to follow this summer.
Dog days and rabbit holes: You start by looking up a baseball manager and, before you know it, you're recalling scenes from "The Natural" and "True Detective 2."
Veteran reliever Jake Petricka of Faribault is joining the independent Atlantic League, which is experimenting with some significant changes to baseball's rules.
Ryne Sandberg, 61, whose All-American image and on-field heroics cemented his place in Cubs lore, is arguably one of the greatest second basemen in baseball history.
As a team, they've played about the equivalent of a full season for a position player: 553 plate appearances. Their collective average is .210. The pitching is bad, too.
The firing of the New York Mets general manager Jared Porter after one month on the job brought strong responses about issues women face while trying to do their jobs.
The St. Louis Cardinals were stripped of their top two picks in this year's draft Monday and ordered to give them to the Houston Astros, along with $2 million as compensation for hacking the Astros' e-mail system and scouting database, the final and unprecedented step in an unusual case of cybercrime involving two Major League Baseball teams.
Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager was a unanimous selection for NL rookie of the year while Tigers pitcher Michael Fulmer beat out Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez for AL honors.