Albert Pujols Passes Willie Mays in Home Runs, if Not Dominance
Relegated to a part-time role for a basement-dwelling team, Albert Pujols — the man they used to call The Machine — stepped to the plate...
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Keeping Score: A No-Hitter by Alec Mills Cannot Be Cheapened With an Asterisk
Javier Baez was already celebrating when he fielded the ball. The shortstop for the Chicago Cubs gathered himself, threw to first, and gave Alec Mills...
Steven Cohen Agrees to Buy the Mets, Again
Frustrated Mets fans have for years pined for a new owner to swoop in and buy their team, someone to save it from what they...
Enrique Oliu, Rays’ Blind Broadcaster, Navigates a Year Without Fans
The soundtrack of the 2020 baseball season, played amid a pandemic, is undoubtedly different. The pop of the catcher’s mitt, the thwack of the bat...
Lou Brock, Baseball Hall of Famer Known for Stealing Bases, Dies at 81
Lou Brock, the St. Louis Cardinals’ Hall of Fame outfielder who became the greatest base-stealer the major leagues had ever known when he eclipsed the...
Cal Ripken Beat Cancer, Talks 25th Anniversary of His Streak
Twenty-five years ago, Cal Ripken Jr. made history simply by doing his job. Ripken, the Baltimore Orioles shortstop, played in his 2,131st game in a...
The Shows Must Go On. But They Aren’t the Same Without You.
They used to arrive before dawn. Hundreds of them came to scream and leap and wave posters scrawled with the names of their hometowns as...
Tom Seaver’s Shining Star
To the Editor: Re “Tom Seaver, 1944-2020: For Generations of Mets Fans, He Was Simply ‘the Franchise’” (front page, Sept. 3): As a lifelong Yankee...
What Made Tom Seaver a Baseball (and Met) Great
The most fitting way to celebrate the life of Tom Seaver, the greatest Met of all, is with a wine glass in one hand and...
‘Greatest Met of All Time’: Tom Seaver Is Mourned Across Baseball
After the announcement late Wednesday that the Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver, one of the greatest in baseball history, had died, tributes began pouring...