Tag: MLB
How much longer will major league baseball stay in the closet?
Peter Dreier, Occidental College
In his 1990 autobiography, “Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball,” Dave Pallone, a gay major league umpire who was...
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...
Let’s call athletes ‘workers,’ and let’s call these NBA protests what...
Abraham I. Khan, Pennsylvania State University
The Milwaukee Bucks’ startling refusal to take to the court for their NBA playoff game on Aug. 26 was...
How Jackie Robinson’s wife, Rachel, helped him break baseball’s color line
Chris Lamb, IUPUI
Jackie Robinson will be remembered for his courage, athleticism, tenacity and sacrifice on Jan. 31, the centennial of his birth. By confronting...
EXPLORING NATURE
Geothermal energy has huge potential to generate clean power – including...
Moones Alamooti, University of North Dakota
As energy use rises and the planet warms, you might have dreamed of...
