The umpire calls ball four and all hell breaks loose. Rather than trotting to first base, the batter breaks into a sprint and doesn’t stop, rounding the bag at full speed. The catcher jumps up and thr...
05.16.2022 latimes.com , yahoo.com and 10 sitesEditor's note: Richard Lapchick is a human rights activist, pioneer for racial equality, expert on sports issues, scholar and author. Like many fans, I watched the commemorations of the 75th anniversa...
05.18.2022 Espn.co.uk and 11 siteswesley morris I’m Wesley Morris. I’m a culture writer at The New York Times. And today on the show: What happens when athletes decide they want to act? Actually, actually, what doesn’t happen when the...
05.19.2022 Nytimes.com and 3 sitesMajor League Baseball has a smaller percentage of Black players now than it has had in any year since the early 1990s, according to a report released this week by The Institute for Diversity and Ethic...
05.19.2022 Newsweek.com and 1 sitesMay 24 1918 — Cleveland’s Stan Coveleski pitched 19 innings in the Indians’ 3-2 victory over the New York Yankees. Former pitcher Joe Wood hit a home run for the win. 1935 — In the first major league night game in Cincinnati, the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 before 25, 000. 1936 — Tony Lazzeri, batting eighth for the New York Yankees, drove in 11 runs with a triple and three home runs — two of them grand slams — in a 25-2 rout of the Philadelphia A’s. 1940 — The New York Giants beat t...
05.19.2022 Usatoday.com and 3 sitesHank Aaron thought The Great Bambino was closer to The Great Bamboozler since George Herman “Babe” Ruth never played against African American players. Speaking of Ruth, Aaron carried lifetime scars fr...
05.16.2022 Forbes.comFrom Notre Dame to the Taj Mahal, many of the world's most iconic buildings seem so perennially full of tourists and so universally beloved as to run no risk of ever being sold and demolished. But is ...
05.14.2022 Msn.com and 1 sitesPhoto courtesy of Sony Music Sony Music and the Estate of Michael Jackson announced on May 16 that it will celebrate the 40 th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s Thriller , the biggest selling album of ...
05.16.2022 Urbanbridgez.com and 6 sitesAdd steeplechase champion to Brian Fay’s ever-expanding Husky accolades. The Dublin, Ireland, switch ran his first steeplechase of the season and produced a Pac-12 title Saturday. Fay’s first conventi...
05.14.2022 Seattletimes.com and 1 sitesEven with a flood of club teams, there are those who still believe in Little League’s stated mission of youth development and leadership. Brewers pitcher Andrew Kim (10) tags out Giants runner Steven Reagan (25) at home plate during a game versus the...
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