Ninety Years Ago: Remembering the Black Sox
from TSN
 It was the fall of 1919. The war to end all wars was over for less than a year and life was getting back to normal in North America. Boston's Babe Ruth led all of baseball in home runs in 1919 with 29. But the big story in 1919 wasn't The Babe. It was the Fall Classic - a series remembered for spawning one of the biggest controversies in baseball history - the infamous Black Sox scandal. More
    

Fields of Dreams
from Anchorage Press
"Where else would you want to spend your summer?" That's the question Bill "Spaceman" Lee poses near the conclusion of Touching the Game Alaska, a new film about the Alaska Baseball League. Lee was eventually a noteworthy pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and Montreal Expos, but before he pitched for them, back in 1966 and 1967, he wore the uniform of a Fairbanks team called the Alaska Goldpanners. More
    

Dodgers to Pay Tribute to Lasorda
from MLB
Dodgertown will become Tommytown once again when legend Tommy Lasorda will be honored at Dodger Stadium for his 60 years with the club. The Dodgers announced that the first 50,000 fans at a recent Friday game against the Rockies would receive a commemorative Tommy Lasorda Hall of Fame replica plaque. In addition, Lasorda's official Hall of Fame plaque from Cooperstown will be on display in Autograph Alley. More
    

Negro Leagues All-Stars Were a Big Hit in the Big Easy in 1939
from New Orleans and Louisiana Sports
For one day in New Orleans in 1939, a scant 50 cents would have bought a close-up view of some of the best baseball players in the country. That's because 70 years ago, dozens of African-American superstars converged at Pelican Stadium for the first Negro Leagues North-South all-star game. More
    

Tigers, Twins Give Fitting End to Baseball in Dome
from The Associated Press via Google
It's a tough place to get nostalgic about, even as they get ready to take the baggies down for good. About the only things Minnesotans really liked about the Metrodome was that it was warm and the mosquitoes couldn't get inside. The plan all along was to play the last baseball game, then say goodbye. But then a ball got lost in the cloudy roof, the Twins got hot, and things changed. In its last days as a baseball stadium, the dome suddenly doesn't look so bad after all. More
    

From Killing Fields to Fields of Dreams
from Foreign Policy in Focus
Cambodia is an unlikely place for baseball. There is chronic poverty, lingering post-war trauma, and rampant human trafficking. Children are more likely to work or rummage through the fetid muck of the Steung Meanchey dump than go to school or play. But for the last seven years, Joe Cook, a Cambodian refugee, has been teaching the game in his homeland, building Cambodia's first ball field. More
    

'For the Love of the Game'
from TC Palm
There is no other sport in which the vivid images from our youth, the magical moments of yesteryear and the sacred numbers that will be forever linked with heroic names are so imbedded in our memories. That's what the folks at The Elliott Museum on Hutchinson Island, Florida, are counting on. With the playoffs about to begin, the museum is celebrating baseball with a month-long exhibit - "Fall Classic: For the Love of the Game" - that will showcase an extensive collection of baseball artifacts, some of which date back 100 years. More
    

Miami Girl Gets Back Historic Baseball After Lawsuit
from The Miami Herald
Who would have imagined that a home run by Phillies slugger Ryan Howard would turn into a legal tug of war with a 12-year-old kid from Miami? More