Forget “Dick and Jane.” I learned to read by studying the baseball box scores in the newspaper. Many of you probably did the same if sports dominated your early years. Once you deciphered the code, ...
A box of rare Bowman baseball cards from 1948 just sold for $514,746 at auction, months after they were discovered unopened in a Tennessee attic. It was a find that startled the baseball-card ...
In mid-afternoon a few weeks ago, Brian Drent received a mind-blowing phone call. “Hello, I have some unopened full boxes and almost full boxes from the 1950s and 1960s that I am considering for your ...
You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we'll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1908, Henry ...
In our introduction to the Baseball Prospectus Basics series we wrote, “We always want to improve our understanding of the game–each player, each play, each pitch, each throw, each hit–what does it ...
Remember being a kid and saving up your weekly allowance to buy a pack of baseball cards? Well, now you can do that as an adult, only it might take a couple months worth of salary depending on how ...
Rickey was the decade's greatest player, and he also happened to have some of the decade's best looking cardboard. True, the Man of Steal grew up in Oakland and embodied the Town's green and gold, but ...
For fans interested in learning a little more than the basic statistics of the game, we offer a beginner’s guide to baseball analytics. I’m kind of old, but not really old. A child of the ‘80s and an ...
BATON ROUGE, La. – The Fall schedule for LSU Baseball in Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field features several intra-squad scrimmages, an exhibition game versus UL Lafayette, and the annual ...
BATON ROUGE, La. – The 2025 LSU baseball squad will take the field for the first time on Thursday, October 10, as the Tigers begin their six-week fall practice period. LSU’s fall baseball intra-squad ...
A baseball box score is loaded with information about the game and players’ performances, but first you need to know what the abbreviations mean. Plain Dealer reporter Dennis Manoloff decodes a box ...