A few days ago, Don Mattingly pulled on a hospital-white uniform with “Dodgers” written across the chest in blue script and settled in for his first season as a Major League Baseball manager. How will ...

Jane Leavy’s second book, a critically acclaimed, New York Times best-selling biography of Mickey Mantle in 2010, has sold 211,000 copies in hardback and 60,000 in paperback. Such commercial success ...

Washington Post associate editor David Mananiss talks about his biography "Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero" and Roberto Clemente's career as a baseball player. Finally tonight, ...

When Steve Bratkovich of St. Paul, Minn., learned that World Series champion baseball player Bob Oldis lived in Iowa City, he knew he had to meet him. Bratkovich was growing up in western Pennsylvania ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WREX) — In honor of Women's History Month the Rockford Public Library is celebrating Baseball Legend Maybelle Blair. She played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ...

Good morning and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m novelist and punk historian Jim Ruland, and this week we’re celebrating America’s pastime. We’re currently midway through the MLB ...

Milwaukee's Larry Baldassaro is one of our best baseball writers. We asked him about his new biography of Tony Lazzeri, in advance of his April 15 virtual book event at Boswell Books. UW-Milwaukee ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BIOGRAPHY: BASEBALL The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych by Doug Wilson (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s) It’s difficult to think of a better way to greet ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MIDTOWN, Manhattan- Casey Stengel lived and ...