“If I were to tell the baseball one thing before I threw it, it would be to miss bats.”

In The Long Season and Ball Four, two literary pitchers describe the days when ballplayers took what their employers offered—or gave up the game.

Strikeouts. It’s always about strikeouts.

It’s been nearly three decades since nine major leaguers suited up for the Springfield softball team. So…what became of them?

Gish Jen’s new novel shows us a world in which a simple baseball game is a revolutionary act.

For a time, it seemed Betts might yet join Yaz in the club of the players who performed their entire careers for the Boston Red Sox. But those are not the times we live in.

A creative way to raise the profile of minor league baseball. Maybe even enough to keep all the teams around.

Do we really know how bouncy the ball is? Let’s find out.

No one should be expected to compromise their morals in order to maintain employment or a career.

How a minor league became major, and why it won’t happen again.