Pitches vary as a result of different spin speed, spin axis, ball orientation.

Detroit Tigers great Bill Freehan taught us how to live. Now, at the end stages, his wife is teaching us something even more important.

The Boston Red Sox are World Champions, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-1, to win the World Series in five games.

The ball the injured Dodger sent into the stands in the 1988 World Series never turned up publicly. If it did now, who would believe it?

The Japanese, meticulous in their approach to baseball, recycling and reuse, have figured out how to make good use of splintered bats.

The infield defensive shifts have become a mainstay in baseball. But the Dodgers and the Red Sox use them very differently.

With his unlikely blast, the Brewers reliever joined obscure players like Tom Lawless, Jim Mason and Kurt Bevacqua, as well as greats like Ozzie Smith and Kirk Gibson.

Tobacco companies spurred the mania, but artistry won the hearts of collectors

When we moved from Cambridge to New York, we promised our son we would never switch sports allegiances. But he could make friends across enemy lines.

Longer protective netting has made it hard for players to flip souvenirs to chosen fans. Now they often throw a ball over the net and up for grabs, which removes the stress of picking a recipient.

The most complete Randy Poffo baseball career retrospective ever written featuring quotes and photos that haven't been seen in more than 40 years.

Andy Appleby, owner of the four-team independent league that plays out of Utica, says he's talking with about 20 cities in seeking a second location.

A marvelous and sensitive celebration of a glorious World Series team was handled wondrously during a Comerica Park 50th-anniversary reunion Saturday.

If you're the on-deck batter, and the bases are loaded with two outs in a tie game in the bottom of the ninth inning, do you go stand in the on-deck circle? There is, of course, no chance you will get to bat. You can't. It's impossible. The hitter will either make an out, and end the inning, or do literally anything else, and end the game. I don't need to explain these facts to you. The question is, do I need to explain these facts to major leaguers?

Willie Horton's throw from left field in Game 5 of the 1968 World Series is widely considered a huge turning point in that year's Fall Classic. The 1968 heroes remembered that Wednesday night.

The New York Mets have been playing the role of spoiler in Los Angeles this week as they took each of the first two games of their three game series against the Dodgers by a score of 4-2. During Monday night’s victory, Mets third baseman Todd Frazier pulled off a pretty incredible catch in the stands…or at least he made it seem like he did.

Even when the answer is “not great,” baseball can still be pretty enchanting.

Sunday outrage gives way to Monday fact-checking. If you were one of the people who (reasonably) got very angry at a short video clip appearing to show an adult Cubs fan intercepting a ball meant for a child, you can stand down. The man, it now appears, is a good guy who does not deserve this at all, and indeed gave away every ball he got—including, earlier, one to that very same child.

Rocker’s Warstic bat from charity sandlot game enshrined in Cooperstown