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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 ...

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.

Nobody elected on pre-integration ballot. Silly to have an exclusive Vet committee for the most overrepresented part of baseball history. Although players who produced the bulk of their WAR before the ...

10. Kansas City Athletics, 59-103: 378. A’s relievers made 378 appearances in 1965, by far the most in the majors. Washington was second with 327. (Frame of reference: Every team this year has used ...

Every spring, for about the last half century, the new baseball season kicks up a debate about whether football has replaced baseball as America's national pastime. Usually, this debate is silly—in ...

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 ...