Despite winning both the 1972 and 1973 World Series, the 1974 Oakland Athletics weren't really favored to do it again. After all, only one club in Major League Baseball had ever won three straight ...

Salary arbitration in Major League Baseball. It’s often not well understood by fans, but is arguably the most important gain that the MLB Players Association got from the owners in 1970 when Marvin ...

Back in the spring of 1974 the Ithaca baseball team put together a season to be remembered and on Saturday they remembered. On Saturday morning over a dozen players from the 1974 Ithaca High School ...

SPRINGFIELD – In their summer to remember, 13 players representing East Springfield Post 420 reigned as state champions of American Legion baseball in 1974. That team, coached by Howie Burns, will be ...

Whether aluminum or wood, a bat can make all the difference. It has for college baseball players since the first aluminum bats were introduced in 1974. Professional coaches commonly refer to players ...

It’s opening day for Red Land Youth Baseball and there’s at least one historic moment to celebrate, the 50-year anniversary of the organization’s first Little League state championship team. Members ...

A neat where-are-they-now item came into the Off at College Lake County newsroom recently regarding the 1974 Western Illinois University baseball team. That team, recently inducted into the Western ...

A bit of magic descended 40 years ago onto the baseball field at Western Illinois University in Macomb. The 1974 Leathernecks were a diverse collection of transfer students, walk-ons, scholarship ...

When I was growing up, my dad used to bring home copies of Baseball Digest for me from the newsstand. There was something about the magazine that was appealing. Probably all of the baseball stuff. It ...

Michigan State University baseball coach Danny Litwhiler was reading the campus newspaper one day in 1974 when he decided to call the cops on some of his pitchers. An article and photo of campus ...