One player in particular is laying waste to the Major League record book: Josh Gibson. Negro Leagues superstar Josh Gibson creates a cloud of dust as he slides into home plate during the fourth inning ...

Baseball’s longest home run record is one of those facts everyone repeats like it’s unquestionable. But when you actually ...

Hundreds of Black athletes who were shut out of Major League Baseball a century ago are now officially a part of it. The MLB announced on Wednesday that it has incorporated the statistics of more than ...

Baseball's record book is filled with numbers that define legacies and separate legends from greats. Some records stand so firm that even modern strategies and player management make them unassailable ...

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When Cal Raleigh makes history, you can be pretty sure somebody will let you know about it. When Shohei Ohtani makes history, there’s an excellent chance a few zillion headlines are coming — in ...

Josh Gibson has long been considered one of the best baseball players to ever hold a bat, but you might not know his name. Gibson, who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972, never had ...

A national TV audience. A cheering crowd that included the nation’s president. A 22-minute standing ovation that interrupted the game. All to watch a baseball player show up to work on Sept. 6, 1995.

On Dec. 16, 2020, Sean Gibson awoke in Pittsburgh to a few inches of freshly fallen snow and a flurry of missed calls from friends and reporters. Major League Baseball had just announced it was ...

Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins, will host hundreds of delegates from the Society for American Baseball Research [SABR] Friday night. It’s been called “the conscience of Major League ...

What used to be one of baseball’s most magical numbers — 61 home runs — now sits buried, eight lines deep, in the Major League Baseball record book. The number now at the top of that record book — 73 ...