Not only are the Red Sox facing what amounts to a do-or-die four-game series with the first place New York Yankees, how about using one of the organization's darkest hours for motivation. So, who ...

Steinert High graduated Dave Gallagher (left) in this 2002 with Trenton Thunder mascot Boomer and then manager De Marlo Hale, recalls fonding the 1978 high school team. (Frank Jacobs III/The Times) ...

If your first year collecting baseball cards was in the 1970s or 1980s, good chance you learned who the best players were by seeing that coveted Topps "All-Star" emblem or banner on the front of a ...

Sometimes turning points are as clear as day, while at other times you only recognize one in hindsight. During the 1978 baseball season, there were two very tangible turning points for my beloved New ...

It’s impossible to think of Bob Welch and not recall the late pitcher’s epic battle with Reggie Jackson in the 1978 World Series. This took place nearly 36 years ago, yet the drama and suspense of the ...

SANFORD—Members of the 1978 Sanford High School baseball team that won the school's first ever Class A state championship, were honored by he Sanford Mainers prior to the game with Manchester played ...

Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani makes MLB postseason history with a three-homer performance during the NLCS sweep, not seen since ...

Youth baseball can bring a town together, as has happened for two weeks while the Little League World Series played out in Williamsport, Pa. Eight teams from America. Eight international teams. That’s ...

In 1978, baseball history became entwined with that of Ford Motor Co. That year, Ford Motor Credit Co. became the sole owner of the Houston Astros baseball team as well as the sole operator of their ...

Bob Brower, a 1978 graduate and the only athlete ever to letter in four sports in one year at James Madison High School, is one of those legendary figures. The type of figure whose name has grown in ...

Willoughby — Almost 2,000 miles and more than 40 years later a lost baseball mitt from Willoughby turned up in a Florida Goodwill. It’s the story of how one man's trash became the original owner's ...