It is tempting to ponder how the 1984 Cubs would have fared if the team hadn't traded Willie Hernandez to the Phillies for Dick Ruthven the year before. But the Cubs already had a closer in future ...

Reasonable people can disagree about Mayor Anthony Williams's latest plan for bringing professional baseball back to Washington. Unfortunately, a lot of the discussion so far has been based on ...

The Oakland Athletics' Mike Norris learned to throw the screwball from San Francisco Giants' Hall of Famer Juan Marichal. In the 1980s, Norris and the Los Angeles Dodgers' Fernando Valenzuela made the ...

The pitch has become baseball’s version of The Dress. Is it gold? Or is it blue? Is it a changeup? Is it a screwball? Or, maybe the most intriguing choice of them all, is it a mashup that has become ...

Professional baseball was filled with famous hitters in the 1930s. Men such as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig could be counted on for homers and RBIs. Pitchers had their hands full facing them. Carl Hubbell ...