Tag: baseball
Utility Power Player Jake Elmore has made MLB history and baseball...
He's been right in front of you, all these years.
Fifteen. That's how many players have played all nine...
How baseball’s first commissioner led a conspiracy of silence to preserve...
Chris Lamb, IUPUI
The Baseball Writers’ Association of America recently announced that it would remove former Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis’ name from...
A world without sports
Lars Dzikus, University of Tennessee
Baseball’s opening day came and went. The Olympics have been postponed. Football in the fall? Don’t count on it.
With COVID-19...
This isn’t the first time sports teams have played in eerily...
Chris Lamb, IUPUI
The NBA decided that it will suspend its season after a player on the Utah Jazz tested positive for the coronavirus, just...
On the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues, a look back...
Rob Ruck, University of Pittsburgh
During the half century that baseball was divided by a color line, black America created a sporting world of its...
What really causes home field advantage – and why it’s on...
Konstantinos Pelechrinis, University of Pittsburgh
Never before has the away team won every single game in the World Series, but that’s exactly what happened this...
How gambling built baseball – and then almost destroyed it
Rebecca Edwards, Rochester Institute of Technology
Imagine if, after watching the thrilling victory of the Chicago Cubs in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series...
Curious Kids: How does a curveball curve?
Jim Gregory, The Ohio State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
