Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Bailey Ober was placed on the injured list on Sunday due to a mild flexor strain in his right elbow. The six-year MLB veteran says he hurt his elbow because the ...

You can't play a baseball game without the actual baseball. In Major League Baseball, turns out you can't play a game without something like 100 baseballs. If you watch a game in 2026, you'll quickly ...

Matt Berninger, lead singer of The National, found a canvas with an old friend. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; photos: Matthew Baker / Getty Images; Brendan Quinn / The Athletic A few ...

There's something different about the baseball, again. Is it more than just cosmetic? (Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images) Baseballs are suddenly flying far at a time when a ...

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Welcome to a new column I’m doing this season, where I take a bi-weekly look around Major League Baseball to fill you in on the league-wide trends, surging teams, and top individual performances.

In Part One, we looked at the defining card of each early decade and how the hobby evolved from its 19th-century origins into the post-war boom. Beginning in the 1960s, the baseball card market ...

In 1991, the world was introduced to a little ragtag group of 12-year-old boys who lived and breathed baseball. They met up every day at the same spot, and played the game together. They never kept ...

AS HARD AS IT MAY BE TO BELIEVE, THERE WAS A TIME IN AMERICA WHEN NO PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL GAME COULD GET UNDERWAY WITHOUT THE HELP OF WHAT WAS MADE IN THIS BUILDING RIGHT HERE IN NATICK CENTER. AFTER ...

“My dad was a big Lakers fan,” Kobe Shaquille Robinson told me, indulging an admittedly obvious question. Robinson was born in 2001, in the middle of Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal’s ...