Goodbye to Baseball’s Most Anachronistic Rule
The New York Yankees have abandoned their half-century prohibition of beards, a policy that was archaic even from its infancy ...
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For over a century, baseball’s scouts have been the backbone of America’s pastime – do they have a future?
Major League Baseball held its first draft in 1965 ... But since the turn of the century, some journalists and executives have questioned the value of scouts. In 2003, author Michael Lewis ...
The men of Palm Beach baseball: All-Black hotel teams of the early 1900s
More than a century ago, two all-Black hotel teams, including one for The Breakers, competed in Palm Beach and beyond.
Larry Dolan, owner of MLB's Cleveland Guardians, dies at 94
Larry Dolan, who purchased Cleveland's baseball franchise in 2000 and whose family guided it through a name change, died at ...
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Meet the Black baseball great who played all over in the Minors of the 19th century
A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...
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What were early 20th-century baseball journalists writing about in late January?
Late January is, historically, a slow time for baseball. The Winter Meetings ended more than a month ago, and the rash of post-holiday signings have already occurred. Meanwhile, spring training is ...
Yankees reveal reason for beard ban flip half a century later
After nearly 50 years of the ban in place for the Bronx baseball players, the decision has finally been made to give more freedom, up to a point.
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Spring training preview: Dodgers are favored to be MLB’s first repeat champion in a quarter-century
Spring training workouts start Sunday with the Los Angeles Dodgers trying to become the first repeat champion since the New York Yankees won three in a row from 1998 to 2000.