On October 10, 2008, Carl Bialik wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled Out of Left Field: The Errors In Counting Black Ballplayers. Here are four excerpts from the article that refl...

It’s only been a month since the end of the World Series, but sitting at the table Thanksgiving day I missed baseball. Maybe it is the lack of any major hot stove activity, or maybe it was the fact that my roommate moved out with his PS3, and his...

The dust is just beginning to settle as major league organizations do a shakedown of their minor league rosters, and I can tell you I have not seen any certain winners so far from within the ranks of players who either started in or have played in...

Whenever I have a baseball coach’s clinic, I begin with a trivia question, “Who caught the last ball that Carl Yastrzemski ever hit in a major league game?” Not one person has ever answered correctly; until I gave them the hint, “The answer is...

Starting in the 1973 season, the American League implemented the designated hitter rule, which allowed a player to hit for another player, which is almost always the pitcher. Here is a look at how the first designated hitters did for their respective...

One of the nice things about this time of year in the Independent Baseball-writing business is we sometimes can sit back without the daily buzz of games and think about some of the factors—and the people—that make this business go. I have...