Baseball has a long history, dating back to 1846. On June 19, 1846, baseball was born. Since its original creation, it is considered America's favorite pastime, from youth athletes to ...

Major League Baseball and the Philadelphia Phillies today unveiled the official logo of the 2026 All-Star Game presented by Mastercard. The 96th Midsummer Classic will be played at Citizens Bank Park ...

Today in baseball history: ... Luis Tiant, Sr., whose son Luis Jr. will win 229 major league games, is the ... 1966 - United Steelworkers union official Marvin Miller* is named the executive ...

Baseball took on its familiar format of nine players per game and nine innings per game on this day in history, March 7, 1857. The game has evolved in many ways over the years.

In baseball, statistics offer the comfort of order and certainty, though their greatest power is as a proxy for legacy. Mere symbols on a page — 61*, 714, .406 — make it possible to reach back ...

Josh Gibson, one of the greatest sluggers in the history of Negro Leagues, could become big league baseball’s single-season batting average record holder with the .441 mark he set 77 years ago.

Similar to how MLB determines qualifiers for statistical leaders, a formula was used to decide which players qualified for MLB leaderboards. With these changes, Negro Leagues legend and Baseball ...

A process to integrate Negro League statistics into MLB's official ... J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball ... • Satchel Paige's 1.01 ERA in 1944 ranks as third-best in history ...

Negro Leagues statistics will become part of the official Major League historical record today, May 29. More than 2,300 players who played in the seven iterations of the Negro Leagues from 1920 ...