Funny, what losing one’s parents does: drive home the reality of one’s mortality. When my father passed away, I realized what I’d already known for quite some time─I was never going to play major ...

Braves acquired C Joey Bart from the Pirates for RHP Hunter Stratton. This frees up the Pirates to carry on with Endy Rodríguez and Henry Davis behind the plate. Bart has missed the last five weeks ...

LONG BEACH Calif. (KABC) -- The backstop at Long Beach's Heartwell Park's field 10 was damaged from a fire. Heartwell Baseball Inc. is a nonprofit organization that's made up of volunteers who ...

"The best way to describe The Backstop is that it is like The Gridiron at the football stadium," said Bo Hemphill, Senior Associate Athletic Director of Development for Mississippi State athletics.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — A portion of two baseball fields on Youngstown’s West Side is sporting fresh coats of paint, thanks to a local business owner. Don Jones, of Canfield, owns Freshcoat Painters ...

If you're a fantasy manager who plays both football and baseball, you'll recognize the catcher position. This is basically the tight end spot for baseball, a fill-one position (at least in standard ...

For the first time anywhere, an excerpt from my forthcoming novel, “Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings.” As I dig into the batter’s box I can hear the chants of the home crowd — “Let’s go ...