Baseball is a national pastime, but it is also big business that has shaped key legal debates and transformed the economics of professional sports. “Socially, baseball is a blend of emotion and of ...

Wright State coach Alex Sogard disagreed with the explanation for the overturned call, while Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin believed the ball was clearly fair. Hawkins Field, Vanderbilt's home stadium, ...

Vanderbilt beat Wright State 4-3 in the Commodores’ opener of the Nashville Regional, with Riley Nelson’s two-run homer with two out in the bottom of the eighth the difference. Here are notes from the ...

The left field foul pole at Oriole Park at Camden Yards has a charmed history. On July 15, 1989, when this same pole occupied the left field corner at old Memorial Stadium, the Baltimore Orioles won a ...

NEW YORK — In the end, it might go down as one of the most obscure player-fan interactions in World Series history. The Dodgers' Mookie Betts went hurtling toward the right field wall on a foul ball ...

After initially being ruled a foul ball, the umpires huddled together and determined that Nelson’s 429-foot home run to right field was indeed fair, giving No. 1 Vanderbilt a 4-3 lead and sending the ...

BOSTON — From inside the home dugout at Fenway Park, it’s difficult for Red Sox players to tell whether a ball hit in the air down the right field line will land fair or foul. “Every time a ball goes ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Fair or foul? No one will ever know for certain which side of the foul pole Riley Nelson's go-ahead, 2-run homer flew past, but it will go down in Vanderbilt baseball history ...