The world is a little less gracious, a little less gentlemanly tonight. Legendary broadcaster Ernie Harwell is gone, probably talking with baseball fans in heaven above in that beautiful, courtly ...

As this 2023 Major League Baseball Season opens, there are many thoughts and feelings that run through the hearts and minds of many people who still, and probably always will, regard the sport as it’s ...

Baseball is a game played between two teams of nine players each. The game is divided into nine innings, each divided into two halves. In the top half of the inning, the players of one team ...

Tennessee's Billy Amick (left) and North Carolina's Gavin Gallaher (right) smacked grand slams in separate regional games against LIU and Indiana, respectively. (Image Source: Instagram/ Billy Amick) ...

Faced with the task of explaining the game of baseball to my son, I asked Slate readers to help me define it in 150 words or fewer. Boy, did you respond. We received hundreds and hundreds of entries.

As Major League Baseball nears the end of its regular season, some of its biggest stars are putting the definition of valuable to the test. Should someone win the most valuable player award if he ...

“Cockamamie” is not a baseball term, although sabermetrics may yet get around to it. Let’s call it CAM, and make a place for it there beside VORP and WHIP; you know, right there in the beating heart ...