Two women who’d gone to school together in New Jersey were there celebrating their 60th birthdays—Nina Kaplan, a Boca Raton ...

The story of baseball runs through the United States and Japan. It’s a ribbon threaded through the history of the sport and ...

He started adding in a knuckleball last year and he’s still figuring out how to incorporate it. There’s no desire to turn him ...

The likes of Phil Niekro, the only knuckleball pitcher in Baseball’s 300-win / 3,000-strikeout club; Tim Wakefield, whose signature knuckleball allowed him to pitch for 19 seasons; or R.A ...

She's played her whole life, from when she was a kid to even professionally, with the Colorado Silver Bullets, a team coached by Phil Niekro. That came after a profound softball career with the ...

While many of the cards in the set are "common players," the set does include base cards of three Hall of Famers (Willie McCovey, Phil Niekro, and Juan Marichal), as well as 1969 NLCS cards ...

On the final day of that 1985 season, Yankees teammate Phil Niekro stopped a personal four-start skid and won No. 300 in unexpected fashion. He ditched his signature knuckleball while throwing a ...

Along with Maddux, Sale and Hampton; Phil Niekro won the award five times, and Max Fried won three in a row. It’s a rich history of strong defensive pitchers in Atlanta, and Schwellenbach is ...

His final game at catcher ended when he took a knuckleball from Phil Niekro squarely on the knee, forcing him to miss nearly two months. He also made 15 errors at first base in just 76 games that ...

The Elmira-Corning All Sports Banquet was an annual event that ran for 40 years, from 1966 to 2005. The Elmira-Corning All Sports Banquet featured the biggest names in sports during a 40-year run ...

Phil Niekro, Greg Maddux and Johnson. It was Johnson’s presence that helped those Giants young pitchers become stars, winning three World Series in five years. Now, Verlander could have that ...