On July 28, 1962, the Philadelphia Phillies were scheduled to play the Pittsburgh Pirates in Philadelphia. A Pennsylvania Railroad train left Harrisburg at 5 p.m. bound for Philadelphia with Midget ...

Fifty years ago, John Glenn orbited the earth, the Rocket entered the world and a New York baseball team burned up on re-entry to the National League. That summer, Americans could hear Elvis Presley ...

Baseball cards most often provide a record of the past. Flip over a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle, if you're lucky enough to have ...

Something good has come from that 1962 World Series in which the Yankees beat the Giants in seven games. A baseball from that World Series, signed by many of the Yankees players, was sold for $30,000 ...

Long before the San Francisco Giants ended a 56-season World Series championship drought in 2010, the club's first National League pennant winner since the move to the West Coast gave the baseball ...

The Mets won just 40 games and lost 120, the most defeats in a single season in the modern history of baseball. Manager Casey Stengel theatrically pointing the way at the start of spring training in ...

This column, by Chicago Defender sports writer A.S. “Doc” Young, first appeared in the Aug. 4, 1962, issue of The Sporting News, after Jackie Robinson had broken another color barrier, becoming the ...

A 1962 autographed World Series baseball that links a Kansas World Series baseball player and two Kansas boys will remain in Kansas. The ball, which raised $30,000 this past weekend in Liberal, will ...

Not long after the New York Mets set the modern record for losses in a single season in 1962, Craig Anderson was given a packet recapping the carnage day by day, game by miserable game. A pitcher on ...

EVANSVILLE -- Ed Wessel, who guided North High School’s baseball team to the mythical state championship in 1962 and was a football hall of famer, had a major influence on several of his players’ ...

Among the 65 former players and managers scheduled to be on hand Aug. 27 when the Mets hold their first Old-Timers’ Day since 1994 are five of the 15 living members from the franchise’s inaugural ...

Cal scheduled a six-game series in Tucson in April 1962, and Golden Bears coach George Wolfman was familiar with the best of college baseball. His team had played No. 1 USC before arriving in Tucson; ...