For a brief moment in the 1980s, Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa did, in fact, become part of the G.I. Joe universe. Here's why it didn't last.

Since the game’s early days, baseball mythology has been constructed — often deliberately — to set itself apart. But sometimes things happen that demonstrate otherwise, and reality pokes through.

The face of comic books changed forever when G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO #21 introduced fans to the "Silent Interlude," an action-packed story with NO DIALOGUE. Now, experience five ALL-NEW ...

Each implicitly casts the universe of baseball as a magical land that touches, but maybe isn't precisely part of, the “real” world in ... Rose and “Shoeless Joe” Jackson, one banned ...

Each implicitly casts the universe of baseball as a magical land that touches, but maybe isn’t precisely part of, the “real” world in ... Rose and “Shoeless Joe” Jackson, one banned ...

(AP Photo/File) FILE - This undated file photo shows baseball player player Shoeless Joe Jackson ... but maybe isn't precisely part of, the “real” world in which we live.

Ultimately, baseball is a lively collage of American life — a game, a business, a political arena, a form of professional entertainment. It has been a repository of a rising nation’s big dreams, of ...