Dec 16 MLB reclassifies Negro Leagues as major league By Associated Press The league said it was "correcting a longtime oversight in the game's history" by elevating the Negro Leagues on the centennial of its founding. Continue reading
Dec 14 Cleveland baseball team’s owner says name won’t change in 2021 By Tom Withers, Associated Press After months of discussions with a variety of groups, including Native Americans who have long protested against the team's use of a moniker and symbols that many deem racist, the American League team is dropping the name it has been… Continue reading
Sep 03 Watch 3:02 Remembering Tom Seaver, beloved baseball Hall of Famer By Stephanie Sy A three-time Cy Young Award winner, Tom Seaver is considered one of the best pitchers in the history of Major League Baseball. He led the transformation of the New York Mets from a band of lovable losers to world champions. Continue watching
Jul 23 Watch 5:45 Can MLB play ball and still avoid an outbreak? Months after the start of spring training, the first pitch of the 2020 Major League Baseball season will be thrown Thursday night. Opening Day gets underway with the Washington Nationals hosting the New York Yankees. But the season will be… Continue watching
Feb 21 Watch 5:22 Why MLB players are frustrated over Astros’ lack of punishment The fallout from a major cheating scandal in Major League Baseball continues. After investigators found that the Houston Astros used an elaborate sign-stealing scheme in 2017, when they won the World Series, members of the team's front office were disciplined. Continue watching
Feb 17 Cardinals manager calls Astros’ upheaval a `healthy purge’ By Chuck King, Associated Press St. Louis manager Mike Shildt described technology's rapid encroachment on baseball in recent years as ethically murky, expressing his satisfaction in Commissioner Rob Manfred's intention to cut down the use of in-game video. Continue reading
Jan 21 Derek Jeter, Larry Walker elected to baseball Hall of Fame By Ronald Blum, Associated Press Derek Jeter came within one vote of being a unanimous pick for the Hall of Fame while Larry Walker also earned baseball's highest honor on Tuesday. Continue reading
Jan 13 Watch 6:12 Why Astros sign-stealing scandal is a ‘major black mark’ against baseball Major League Baseball says teams may not use modern technology to carry out an age-old practice: decoding the signs opposing catchers and pitchers use to communicate. The Houston Astros’ general manager and field manager were both fired Monday for an… Continue watching
Oct 16 Watch 4:11 Nats’ path to World Series is something to cheer for in divided D.C. For the first time since 1933, Washington, D.C., finally has a baseball team going to the World Series. William Brangham reports on the Nationals' unlikely run to the fall classic, and what hometown pride means for the nation's capital at… Continue watching
Oct 09 Watch 6:26 100 years since ‘Black Sox’ World Series, new details challenge long-held story By Stephanie Sy, Casey Kuhn Wednesday marks the 100th anniversary of a notorious moment in baseball's history: when the White Sox lost to the Cincinnati Reds in the 1919 World Series, provoking a scandal that stained the sport's reputation. Now, as Stephanie Sy reports, a… Continue watching