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

Dave Parker spent only one of 19 career seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers, but the news of his passing brings sorrow to all ...

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

Aug. 7, 1979 — Steve Yeager and Joe Ferguson, Dodgers vs. Astros. These two also homered twice apiece that day. But Ferguson ...

Schalk’s accomplishment marked just the second time in MLB history a catcher had hit for the cycle.

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 ...

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

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

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

With the Knicks not dominating the headlines, the focus is on the Yankees and Mets and both teams are struggling lately after ...

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

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