What Tyler Skaggs Left Behind
On the death of a major league pitcher and its aftermath.
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On the death of a major league pitcher and its aftermath.
Marin Fader Bleacher Report Sep 2020 20min Permalink
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League did everything it could to keep lesbians off the diamond. Seventy-five years later, its gay stars are finally opening up.
Britni de la Cretaz Narratively May 2018 15min Permalink
When a car careened onto a baseball field in Sanford, Maine, during a Babe Ruth game in 2018, it set in motion a true-crime mystery 50 years in the making.
Myth, storytelling, and lore in the most disappointing clubhouses of America’s pastime.
Rolf Potts Medium Oct 2016 15min Permalink
In American baseball, flipping your bat is frowned upon. In South Korea, it’s an art.
Mina Kimes ESPN Oct 2016 20min Permalink
Happy 59th! Or is it 58th? Cracking the mystery of Don Mattingly’s birthday.
Sam Miller ESPN Apr 2020 15min Permalink
The families Dodger Stadium removed.
Eric Nusbaum Vice Mar 2020 20min Permalink
A Major League umpire learns that his children share the same deadly genetic disease.
Lisa Pollak The Baltimore Sun Dec 1996 20min Permalink
A woman told police she was raped by three New York Mets. They were never charged.
Daniel Engber Slate Jan 2020 35min Permalink
I cannot burden my family with worry, because to be a burden worse than not being family at all. Like everyone else, I came to the ballpark to get away from something.
Malt Schlizmann Deadspin Oct 2019 15min Permalink
Mexico is now importing lots of its baseball talent from America.
Joseph Bien-Kahn Gen Sep 2019 Permalink
A profile of a previously unknown rookie pitcher for the Mets who dropped out of Harvard, made a spiritual quest to Tibet, and somewhere along the line figured out how to throw a baseball much, much faster than anyone else on Earth.
George Plimpton Sports Illustrated Apr 1985 25min Permalink
The joys of watching baseball.
Roger Angell The Summer Game Feb 1971 20min Permalink
The true story of a ring of thieves who stole millions of dollars’ worth of luxury watches—and the special agent who brought them down.
Amy Wallace GQ Oct 2018 25min Permalink
How prison changed the former pro scout.
Ben Reiter Sports Illustrated Oct 2018 20min Permalink
A profile of the postwar Bronx Bombers.
Things might have been very different for the Chicago White Sox
Dayn Perry CBS Sports Apr 2018 30min Permalink
Riding along with the Mets broadcast trio, the main reason to watch the team.
By Devin Gordon New York Times Magazine Sep 2018 20min Permalink
Hanging out with the AirHogs of Grand Prairie.
Eric Benson Texas Monthly Aug 2018 10min Permalink
Ted Williams grows old.
Richard Ben Cramer Esquire Jun 1986 1h Permalink
Nothing can match Cuban post-season baseball fever.
Joseph Swide Victory Journal Aug 2018 10min Permalink
How the Congressional baseball shooting didn’t become the deadliest political assassination in American history.
Kate Nocera, Lissandra Villa Buzzfeed May 2018 30min Permalink
Baseball and complicated father/son relationships.
Patrick Walczy Hobart Apr 2018 Permalink
The complicated post-retirement life of Joe DiMaggio.
Gay Talese Esquire Jul 1966 35min Permalink
The twilight of future Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki.
Wright Thompson ESPN Mar 2018 20min Permalink