The Classic Baseball Era Committee will meet for the first time this Sunday in Dallas. The eight candidates who comprise the Classic Baseball Era Committee ballot were chosen from eligible player, ...

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Ray Kelly was a newspaperman for 50 years. He began as a copy boy in 1929 at the age of 15 with the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, having left school as a seventh grader during the Depression. An ...

With 145 wins to his credit and an early retirement from professional baseball at age 28, William Arthur “Candy” Cummings does not possess a typical Hall of Fame resume for a pitcher. However, despite ...

Tom Manning had a voice so loud that he hardly needed a microphone to call baseball games. In fact, he overloaded a transmitter during his big league broadcast debut in 1929. Manning’s resonant ...

In virtually all of his managerial stops, Lou Piniella turned struggling teams into pennant contenders. It’s a legacy that has brought Piniella acclaim and admiration throughout baseball – and has ...

The spirit of Cooperstown will be on full display on Dec. 3 when Welcome Home Cooperstown's Stroll the Street and the National Baseball Hall of Fame team up for a day of holiday fun. The Hall of Fame ...

Whitey Ford called him as “a superstar who never acted like one. He was a humble man who was kind and friendly to all his teammates, even the rawest rookie. He was idolized by all the other players.” ...

An ambitious, driven leader, American League founder Ban Johnson was baseball’s most influential executive for more than a quarter of a century. An ambitious, driven leader, American League founder ...

Though it has been surpassed more than a half-dozen times since, Babe Ruth’s 60 home runs hit in 1927 remains a monumental benchmark in the sport’s history. While Roger Maris, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire ...