Slightly delayed by labor negotiations, another Major League Baseball season opens Thursday. While in the academy it’s common to hear theses about sports as a folk religion, the most salient ...

Whatever harm Barry Bonds did to baseball pales in comparison to the damage baseball inflicted on itself both at the time and since. So say what you will about the steroids era, at least the games ...

While the drug scandal may have ruined the game, it also revived it. St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire lifts up his son Matthew at home plate in St. Louis in 1998 after breaking Roger Maris’ 37 ...

WASHINGTON -- When he was a New York Mets baseball broadcaster, Ralph Kiner once explained how cold weather can shorten by 25 feet the distance a fly ball travels: "If the fence is 338 feet (away) and ...

ST. LOUIS — It's almost too simple. Just like the past few Collective Bargaining Agreements, Major League Baseball owners are making the MLB Players' Association bend over backwards in order to get ...

I’m trying to explain the difference between sacred and profane time to my class on world religions, and baseball exemplifies the sacred variety. The experience of a baseball game offers a way of ...

In Major League Baseball history, just under 21,000 players have made the roster of a team. Countless others have toiled in the minor leagues for years, doing all they could to make their childhood ...

Baseball, as a sport, needs Paul Skenes to pitch as much as possible. The Pittsburgh Pirates, as a franchise, need Paul Skenes’s right arm to stay intact as long as possible. Those two forces may ...

Major League Baseball stepped into the future with its recent announcement that “robotic umpires” will be introduced next season. Under MLB’s new Automated Ball-Strike challenge system, teams will ...

Football and basketball have pulled past America's pastime, and participation has become more centralized than ever on the diamond — a big problem. I played baseball for over a decade. From the days ...

The MLB Draft Lottery is here, so here is our live coverage of the Atlanta Braves and their role in the draft lottery including their exact 2026 draft pick.

The most impactful player in baseball history grew up here, Jackie Robinson learning his craft on the sandlots of Pasadena just up the road from Chavez Ravine. His childhood house has been torn down, ...