Baseball legend Sammy Sosa received a hero's welcome back home when he returned to Wrigley Field. The retired Chicago Cubs ...

How do you go from being a pariah, to being a symbol of summertime fun for the whole family? It's complex, writes .

1978 — Willie McCovey became the 12th player in major league history to hit 500 home runs. His shot off Atlanta’s Jamie ...

1998 — Sammy Sosa broke the major league record for homers in a month, hitting his 19th of June leading off the seventh ...

The Phillies actually re-took first place Friday with a win in the series opener, but the Mets evened things up Saturday, ...

1969 — Pancho Gonzalez, 41, wins the longest tennis match in Wimbledon history by beating Charles Pasarell in a 112-game ...

1939 — The Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves played a 23-inning, 2-2 tie. Whit Wyatt pitched the first 16 innings for the Dodgers. Both clubs played a 26-inning tie in 1920 at the same Braves ...

CHICAGO — Closure is something we all crave, whether it’s the perfect ending to a favorite TV series or a resolution of a ...

Last week two of the most disreputable beneficiaries of MLB’s and “Bottom Line” Bud Selig’s intentional neglect of what no ...

Featured in this week’s MLB Power Rankings, things get heated between the Dodgers and the Padres, the Phillies take advantage ...