A few days ago, Don Mattingly pulled on a hospital-white uniform with “Dodgers” written across the chest in blue script and settled in for his first season as a Major League Baseball manager. How will ...

Jane Leavy’s second book, a critically acclaimed, New York Times best-selling biography of Mickey Mantle in 2010, has sold 211,000 copies in hardback and 60,000 in paperback. Such commercial success ...

When Steve Bratkovich of St. Paul, Minn., learned that World Series champion baseball player Bob Oldis lived in Iowa City, he knew he had to meet him. Bratkovich was growing up in western Pennsylvania ...

Washington Post associate editor David Mananiss talks about his biography "Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero" and Roberto Clemente's career as a baseball player. Finally tonight, ...

Good morning and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m novelist and punk historian Jim Ruland, and this week we’re celebrating America’s pastime. We’re currently midway through the MLB ...

It’s difficult to think of a better way to greet the return of baseball after its long annual hibernation than by recalling and celebrating the brief but incandescent career of Mark Steven Fidrych, or ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MIDTOWN, Manhattan- Casey Stengel lived and ...

MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: This is KPBS Midday Edition, I am Maureen Cavanaugh. San Diego can claim baseball legend Ted Williams as a native son, but his great days as the splendid splinter took lace in ...

Clayton Kershaw is going to have a book published on Tuesday. It is a biography of his career and life written by Andy McCullough, who also functions as a senior writer for The Athletic. The legendary ...