In 1968 the Cubs got off to a bad start. On July 5 they lost 4-0 to the Pirates and were 35-45, in ninth place, 15.5 games ...

The Redmen will be led into the 1969 season by two All New England players, shortstop and co-captain, Joe DiSarcina, and outfielder, Bob Hansen. Joe played brilliantly the past two years and has hit ...

If baseball had its way in the mid-1960s, the birthdays and anniversaries of the biggest expansion class in the game’s history wouldn’t happen for another couple of years. The Kansas City Royals are ...

Complete games have become rarer for modern pitchers than balks. Starting pitchers haven’t necessarily gotten worse ó or better ó but their role has definitely changed. No pitcher on Rowan County’s ...

Some family members of the 1969 Mets have only the memories of others or YouTube to learn about their relative’s role on the World Series champion. “The reality of mortality,’’ former pitcher Jim ...

Courtesy photo Members of the 1969 undefeated Altoona Area High School baseball team include (from left): First row--Steve Sauers, Paul Hargreaves (deceased), Bob Ramazzotti (deceased), Ralph Williams ...

Former Gophers baseball first baseman Mike Walseth, who was first-team All-Big Ten in 1968 and 1969 and first-team All-America in 1969, died Saturday. Walseth was 77. Walseth, who was living in St.

On this day in history, June 8, 1969, the New York Yankees retired slugger Mickey Mantle's number — No. 7 — in front of some 61,000 Major League baseball fans at the sold-out stadium. People cheered ...

A look at the championship team captured in the 1969 Topps Baseball set. By Jay Schreiber Tom Seaver won the rookie of the year award in 1967, finishing 16-13 for a Mets team that was still nowhere ...

Given the many, many variables which go into building a baseball team, and given how long it takes to build a winner, there aren’t all that many true Cinderella stories in the national pastime.

Casey Stengel always said the Mets would win when they put a man on the Moon. Both miracles happened in 1969. The whole world didn’t stop on July 20, 1969, when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the ...