Baseball
Physicists May Have Finally Figured Out Why Knuckleballs Are So Hard to Hit
All with the help of a ball-throwing robot
The Oakland A’s Hire the First Woman to Coach Major League Baseball
Justine Siegal will be a guest instructor for the team
That Time When Ansel Adams Posed for a Baseball Trading Card
In the 1970s, photographer Mike Mandel asked his famous colleagues to pose for a pack of baseball cards. The results are as amazing as you’d imagine
Are Robot Umpires Coming to Baseball?
Now that a computer has covered home plate at a minor league game, what's next?
Which of These Baseball Players Should the Portrait Gallery Put on Display?
Vote for these all-stars in an entirely different kind of competition
The Year of Jackie Robinson's Mutual Love Affair With Montreal
Before he became a major leaguer, Robinson spent a formative year in the more hospitable environs of Canada
Who Has the Best Facial Hair in Baseball History?
As long as there have been home runs and strike outs, ballplayers, even some Yankees, have sported mustaches, beards and side burns
The Hunt for the Best Ballpark Hot Dog
Tom Lohr has been traveling the country making his own list of All-Star franks. Who has the best one?
Rare Footage of Duke Ellington Highlights When Jazz and Baseball Were in Perfect Harmony
The Smithsonian's curator of American music explains how the history of two great American innovations—Jazz and baseball—are intertwined
The Inside Story of Baseball's Grand World Tour of 1914
As the 2014 season opens in Australia, they are really only following in the footsteps of the Giants and the White Sox from 100 years ago
Game Delayed Due to Bees
One can only assume that Oprah has something to do with this
Spokane Indians' New Uniforms Have Team Name in Native Spokane Salish Language
Here come the fighting Sp’q’n’i
A Long Toss Back to the Heyday of Negro League Baseball
Sportswriter Frank Deford looks back at the games that opened the national pastime to African-Americans
The Past and Future of the Baseball Bat
The evolution of the baseball bat, and a few unusual mutations
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The Woman Who (Maybe) Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig
Of all the strange baseball exploits of the Depression era, none was more surprising than Jackie Mitchell’s supposed feat
Eins, Zwei, Drei Strikes You’re Out at the Ol’ Ballgame
What happens when the American pastime comes to Germany?
Document Deep Dive: The Heartfelt Friendship Between Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey
Baseball brought the two men together, but even when Rickey left the Brooklyn Dodgers, their relationship off the field would last for years
That Time More Than 150 Years Ago When Thousands of People Watched Baseball on Christmas Day
During the Civil War, two regiments faced off as spectators, possibly as many as 40,000, sat and watched
The 11 Things You Didn’t Know About Wheaties
Wheaties has been around for nearly 90 years, but when did they start putting athletes on the cover?
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