In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the California desert Visitors to Manzanar National Historic Site will be able ...

Prisoners in WWII Japanese incarceration camps were still American, and took part in baseball, the great American pastime Philip Byrd The all-star team from Gila River (Arizona) that played at Heart ...

UCLA history professor Joan Waugh is one of the country’s pre-eminent scholars on American history in the latter half of the 19th century and in particular the Civil War. She’s also a lifelong ...

It was 2-2, bottom of the ninth, bases loaded and two out. Russell Hinaga swung hard, driving a single through second and scoring the winning run. The date was March 27, 1935, and his team, the San ...

Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins, will host hundreds of delegates from the Society for American Baseball Research [SABR] Friday night. It’s been called “the conscience of Major League ...

Daniel "Doc" Adams nurtured baseball in its formative years of the mid-1800s as if it were his only child. He laid down the laws of baseball in its infancy, guiding the sport the rest of its days. He ...

This morning I woke up and saw that a friend had posted a photo on my Facebook timeline. It was of the opening ceremonies for the first game at the Braves new ballpark Friday night. The photo was of ...

Major John Griffith envisioned a nation made better, healthier and stronger — more powerful and patriotic — and forged by youthful competition that preached good citizenship. To this day, his legacy ...

The greatest thing about baseball, perhaps, is its history. In nearly 150 years of play in leagues and informal competition that goes back further, many people have made baseball’s history what it is ...

“YOU MIGHT not get this crazy game,” warned Tom Heitz, a historian, before attempting to induct a crowd of baseball scholars into the mysteries of town ball. An early form of baseball, played in north ...