It may be America?s game, but no one seems to know how or when baseball really started. Theories abound, myths proliferate, but reliable information has been in

Propounding his "small ball theory" of sports literature, George Plimpton proposed that "the smaller the ball, the more formidable the literature." Of course he

This history of America's pastime describes the evolution of baseball from early bat and ball games to its growth and acceptance in different regions of the cou

Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again. Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Did baseball even have a father--or did it just evolve from

Baseball has never had a more important year than 1939, when events and people came together to reshape the game like never before. The author explains why that