The Kansas City Athletics had a sordid history to bring to Oakland when they arrived in 1968, and Bay Area baseball fans didn't know what to expect from the American League team that had once been a ...

Imagine being a kid in 1972 and having your friends find your card in a pack of Topps baseball cards. Such was the ...

Dick Allen, who won the American League’s Most Valuable Player award in 1972 with the Chicago White Sox, has passed away at the age of 78, his family announced Monday. Allen hit 351 home runs and ...

Was it Sunday that Baseball honored Jackie Robinson? Was it any day that Baseball really honored Jackie Robinson? Oh, they stood him out there on the mound that Sunday in Cincinnati, less than two ...

In 1972, anti-war protesters were tearing up their draft cards, the women’s liberation movement was seen as a threat to the traditional family and baseball endured its first players strike. On the ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Dick Allen, who won the 1972 American League MVP award with the White Sox, is one of eight Classic Baseball Era Committee finalists up for election to the Baseball Hall of Fame’s ...

“Comic book characters never grow old,” Elton John once sang to a Bernie Taupin lyric. Too bad that’s not the case for the rest of us, major league players included. 2020 was a tough year for the ...

Richard Nixon was president. Tensions surrounding school busing for desegregation were high. “The Godfather” film was a week away from release. But one Orlando Sentinel item from the spring of 1972 ...