Despite winning both the 1972 and 1973 World Series, the 1974 Oakland Athletics weren't really favored to do it again. After all, only one club in Major League Baseball had ever won three straight ...

Back in the spring of 1974 the Ithaca baseball team put together a season to be remembered and on Saturday they remembered. On Saturday morning over a dozen players from the 1974 Ithaca High School ...

It was almost 41 years ago and I wasn’t even 10 but my grandmother surprised my brother and me, taking us to Atlanta-Fulton Stadium on April 8, 1974. The significance was obvious, even at my age, and ...

In the final two years of the Border League, Coach Harry Amend’s Central Valley baseball team had a run of success, with league titles in 1974 and 1975. His 1974 team was young and often started six ...

A bit of magic descended 40 years ago onto the baseball field at Western Illinois University in Macomb. The 1974 Leathernecks were a diverse collection of transfer students, walk-ons, scholarship ...

Michigan State University baseball coach Danny Litwhiler was reading the campus newspaper one day in 1974 when he decided to call the cops on some of his pitchers. An article and photo of campus ...

A half-century ago Tuesday, the Cleveland Indians offered fans beer for a dime, with a generous limit of six at a time, for a home game against the Texas Rangers. What could go wrong? Not much, except ...

It’s opening day for Red Land Youth Baseball and there’s at least one historic moment to celebrate, the 50-year anniversary of the organization’s first Little League state championship team. Members ...

When I was growing up, my dad used to bring home copies of Baseball Digest for me from the newsstand. There was something about the magazine that was appealing. Probably all of the baseball stuff. It ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the start of El Paso Diablo baseball. Jim Paul bought the team at the end of 1973 for $1,000. He also had to assume the team's pre-existing debt of $52,000.