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 ...

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.