Jim Baker

Sure you know about jinxes, but have you ever actually seen one? Well, now you have, thanks to the inspired cover artist of this 1943 issue of True Sport Picture Stories. By the time this issue...

The only way the perspective on the cover of this 1947 Green Hornet comic makes any sense is if they're the watching the game on a large-screen television in a room that has steel columns, a vendor...

Sal Maglie, who didn't get a real shot at the major leagues until he was 33 years old, went 59-18 for the New York Giants between 1950 and 1952. When you did stuff like that in the old days, they'd...

There was a time when most every big-city paper in the land had a sports cartoonist. One of them was Jo Metzer, who worked in Chicago and Philadelphia. And, for about the price of two movie...

I was saddened to hear that long-time Royals broadcaster Fred White had passed away. I was fortunate enough to hear White and his partner Denny Matthews quite a bit when I lived in Kansas and the...

Why watch baseball when you can play it instead? Well, not actually play it, but play a simulation of it with cards. Earl Gillespie was the one-time voice of the Milwaukee Braves. I will cop to...

Regardless of the worthiness of the cause, you've got to admit that pink bats are pretty hideous on an aesthetic level.

If I told you there was a way you could test your Bible knowledge while playing a baseball board game, would you believe me? If I showed you a picture of that game, would you believe me then? If I...

I know you're all clamoring for things relating to him -- especially after last night's call in the Indians-A's game -- but this is the only Angel Hernandez item currently for sale on eBay.

All best wishes to J.A. Happ for a speedy and successful recovery.