Baseball

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle">Baseball’s rules and rituals are much as they were fifty years ago and anything to win still goes.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Foul was fair, and fair foul, when eight players of the championship White Sox conspired with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series</span> </p>

<p>The classic American baseball poem might have vanished if not for an actor's impromptu performance.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> … illuminated by the hand-tinted slides that helped make it a hit</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A portfolio of rare photographs recalls baseball’s rough-and-tumble vintage era</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Abner Doubleday had an eventful life, but as far as we know, he never gave a thought to the game with which his name is so firmly linked</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">It was a hundred years ago, and the game has changed a good deal since then. But there are plenty of people who still insist that cranky old Hoss Radbourn was the finest pitcher ever.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Forget football, basketball, and all the other sports that are artificially regulated by the clock. Only baseball can truly reveal our national character. Only baseball can light our path to the future. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A lifelong baseball fan recalls his early days and explains the rewards of abject loyalty.</span></p>

<p>In his last time at the plate, Ted Williams crushed a 440-foot home run deep to right field.</p>

<p><span class="deck">What happened when a historian largely indifferent to the subject set out to write the script for Ken Burns’s monumental new documentary</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">BASEBALL WAS PLAYED FOR 30 YEARS BEFORE ANYONE THOUGHT ABOUT FINDING A WAY TO PROTECT PLAYERS’ FINGERS.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">WHY BASEBALL DOESN’T PLAY BY THE RULES OF BUSINESS</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Just as the year changed the nation, so its World Series changed American sports.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The pitcher with the unhittable fireball deserves as much credit for breaking baseball’s color barrier as does Jackie Robinson.</span></p>

<p>In baseball's earliest years, players beaned baserunners and often had to flout town laws prohibiting the game</p>

<p>He was a lieutenant in the Army of the United States: he saw no reason to sit in the back of the bus</p>

<p>Bill Veeck changed baseball forever, integrating the American League in 1949 and creating a variety of stunts and promotions to bring more people to the stadium.</p>

<p>A curious story of religion, sex, and baseball grew out of a long-forgotten postcard among her grandmother’s belongings.</p>

<p>He was unlike any other baseball star in America, a blond-haired boy from the heartland whose raw power and mythical purity made him a hero.</p>

<p>One hundred years ago this month, the “House That Ruth Built” became the first true baseball stadium.</p>