Ninety years ago, the baseball world was stunned as an 18-year female pitcher named Virne Beatrice “Jackie” Mitchell of Chattanooga signed a minor league contract with the hometown Lookouts. Several ...

User-Created Clip by mcgorry December 7, 2021 2021-12-04T08:53:29-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/037/1638914798.jpgPepperdine University professor Loretta ...

Paul Bruce of Cocoa Beach is a lifelong baseball fan, and for an energetic, interesting man of 96, that goes back a long way. He remembers fondly his many baseball experiences when he was a kid back ...

The game of baseball seemed grandly American in the 1930s. Players had cherubic names — Birdie and Schoolboy, sounding like characters from a Broadway musical. Beneath the good times, though, breathed ...

In honor of the World Series, a friend posted a photograph of her father (taken about 1935) with two early San Antonio names prominent. The photo of Daniel Bernhard Grassel shows him wearing a wool ...

Amidst a presidential campaign in which many of our countrymen deplore the choices we face in November, let’s take a break, follow the counsel of Ecclesiastes 3:1 (“For everything there is a season …” ...

The place for baseball fans to be in autumns of the 1920s and 1930s was outside The Canton Repository. Canton’s favorite viewing venue for Major League Baseball’s fall classic — the World Series — was ...

Cooperstown is linked with two young, flame-throwing pitchers for the 1939 Cleveland Indians. One was born there and the other was enshrined there. All right, they are two different cities with the ...

Dive into the thrilling world of baseball with these top nine cinematic gems that capture the spirit of America's favorite ...

I have an old family picture of my uncle Jose R. Briseno, who was born in 1920 and lived on the West Side during the 1930s. The photo shows my uncle and two friends at a baseball stadium in San ...