Fifty years ago, John Glenn orbited the earth, the Rocket entered the world and a New York baseball team burned up on re-entry to the National League. That summer, Americans could hear Elvis Presley ...

Long before the San Francisco Giants ended a 56-season World Series championship drought in 2010, the club's first National League pennant winner since the move to the West Coast gave the baseball ...

If you ask Ralph Houk, he'll tell you that the American League is really superior to the National, that the greater competition credited to the senior circuit is a myth. Bring more than a decade of ...

This column, by Chicago Defender sports writer A.S. “Doc” Young, first appeared in the Aug. 4, 1962, issue of The Sporting News, after Jackie Robinson had broken another color barrier, becoming the ...

Rhode Island lost one of its greatest athletic legends over the weekend when former Major League pitcher and longtime college and youth coach Dave Stenhouse died at the age of 90. Stenhouse’s death ...