The Boston Red Sox were the last Major League Baseball team to integrate, some 12 years after Jackie Robinson played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The baseball commissioner's charming, informative memoir is about the best you can hope to read from a powerful professional sports insider — even if Selig is too defensive on steroids.
Former Boston Red Sox first-baseman Bill Buckner has died at 69. Best known for a fielding error that helped cost Boston the 1986 World Series, Buckner was cheered by Red Sox fans in recent years.
Boston's Fenway Park is more than 100 years old, which makes maintenance no easy task. Every year, Donnie Gardiner is the man who makes sure the ballpark is running smoothly.
As baseball tries to appeal to a younger audience, there's concern the long game times may drive away that demographic. So MLB is experimenting with speeding games up and eliminating downtime.
The Los Angeles starter has thrown dozens of pitches faster than 98 mph in six strong innings, and the Dodgers' left-handed outfielder took advantage of his first World Series start as L.A. leads 1-0.
Boston and Los Angeles traded runs back and forth through the first four innings, but the Dodgers couldn't get out of the Red Sox loading the bases in the fifth, and trail 5-3.