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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: This is KPBS Midday Edition, I am Maureen Cavanaugh. San Diego can claim baseball legend Ted Williams as a native son, but his great days as the splendid splinter took lace in ...

"John Tortes "Chief" Meyers (1880-1971) was the hard-hitting, award-winning catcher for John McGraw's New York Giants from 1908 to 1915 and later for the Brooklyn Dodgers. This first full biography ...

It's Opening Day! Not only of the baseball season, but also the baseball book season. No sport draws so much of its emotional energy from its history, whether legend or fact, and reading can be the ...