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Byline: David Colton Special for USA TODAY Memories have generations, too. As each year passes, names, images and likenesses of the 20th century fade. About 30% of Americans were born [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY Rennie Stennett, etched forever in the baseball record books as the first and only player to go 7-for-7 in a major league game, died Tuesday [...]

Byline: Bob, Nightengale, Columnist The vile phone calls and hate mail poured into the Atlanta Braves offices, littered with ugly epithets and racial overtones. They were belittling, ridiculing and reviling, [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY In his first four minutes as baseball's all-time home run king, Barry Bonds gallivanted through a throng of teammates and loved ones at San Francisco's [...]

Byline: Mike Jones, USA TODAY Predictable, authentic, consistent and the standard-bearer for excellence. That best describes the Henry Aaron that his teammates saw and knew on a daily basis during [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY In other news There's a Baseball Hall of Fame election around the corner, coming Tuesday. Derek Jeter will finally give us a break from baseball's [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY Barry Bonds, simply, is one of the greatest players who ever lived. You can't talk to anyone who played during his generation who doesn't believe [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY Roger Clemens' ability to fight on his own behalf, to reinvent himself, to stay in the conversation and the game of baseball was always a [...]

Byline: Jori Epstein, USA TODAY FRISCO, Texas - Jon Kitna's directive to Dak Prescott seems paradoxical. The Cowboys quarterbacks coach implores Prescott to take risks on split-second decisions, to play [...]

Byline: Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY When Ron Guidry walked to the mound that night, the routine, at least, was familiar. The Yankees starting pitcher picked up the baseball. He stood [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, Columnist, USA Today SAN FRANCISCO - This is Barry Bonds' night at the Oscars. He is stepping back into the spotlight Saturday night at AT&T Park, where [...]

Byline: Ted Berg, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - There's a crowd around Mike Trout for the outfielder's All-Star Game media session Monday afternoon, but one more manageable than the mobs surrounding [...]

Byline: Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY Five years after shutting out all candidates, baseball's Hall of Fame continues to swing its doors wide open. For the fourth time since 2014, [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, bnighten@usatoday.com, USA TODAY Sports The Boston Red Sox, declaring David Ortiz as perhaps the greatest player in franchise history, treated him with such a magnificent and celebrated [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, bnighten@usatoday.com, USA TODAY Sports They shrieked the moment they spotted him on the baseball field. They gave him a standing ovation after each round of batting practice. [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, @BNightengale, USA TODAY Sports It has been 2 years and 25 days since Tony Gwynn died, but the tears keep flowing and the pain has yet to [...]

On June 21, 2015, former Major League outfielder Darryl Hamilton was murdered by an ex-girlfriend who took her own life moments later, according to police in Pearland, Texas. Hamilton left [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, bnighten@usatoday.com, USA TODAY Sports Pat Listach was still asleep after taking a red-eye flight home but suddenly was jarred awake. It was his wife, Carolyn, who saw [...]

Byline: Cesar Brioso Should Jackie Robinson's widow, Rachel Robinson, go to Estadio Latinoamericana in Havana on Tuesday, she'll see a game at the same site where her husband played 69 [...]

Byline: Walter Villa, Special for USA TODAY Sports Florida Gators softball coach Tim Walton was recruiting first baseman Taylor Schwarz a few years ago when a conversation with her father [...]

Byline: Nancy Armour, narmour@usatoday.com, USA TODAY Sports From his jaw-dropping .537 slugging percentage last season to the massive watch on his wrist, Lourdes Gourriel Jr. has all the makings of [...]

Byline: Joe Lemire, @LemireJoe, Special for USA TODAY Sports With the Class AA Binghamton Mets playing a road series a mere 103 miles from Citi Field, a crowd of autograph-seekers [...]

Byline: Jorge L. Ortiz, @JorgeLOrtiz, USA TODAY Sports Todd Frazier knows about getting a thunderous ovation at Great American Ball Park, having energized the Queen City and its surroundings Monday [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, @GabeLacques, USA TODAY Sports By the time Nolan Arenado was 12 years old, he'd already made it to Cooperstown -- as part of a travel baseball team. [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, bnighten@usatoday.com, USA TODAY Sports You want to hear the truth, or are you afraid of it? You want your answers unfiltered, or do you want political correctness? [...]

On Aug. 24, 1989, Pete Rose accepted a lifetime ban from Major League Baseball. In 1992, Bryce Harper, Manny Machado, Joc Pederson and Kris Bryant were born. So it's not [...]

Byline: Jake Lourim, @jakelourim, USA TODAY Sports The Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera retook the lead at first base in American League All-Star Game voting, but the Kansas City Royals maintained [...]

Byline: Josh Peter, @joshpeter11, USA TODAY Sports Yogi Berra turns 90 today, and for readers there is a gift: rarely heard 'Yogi-isms,' the inimitable quotations that turned Berra, a Hall [...]

Byline: Edited by Reid Cherner FIRST WORD FANS THINK BECAUSE THEY WATCH 'GREY'S ANATOMY' THEY KNOW HOW TO PERFORM AN OPERATION.' Charles Barkley, talking to radio host Dan Patrick about [...]

Byline: Paul White, @PBJWhite, USA TODAY Sports When Ernie Banks played baseball, the Chicago Cubs hadn't yet installed lights at Wrigley Field, so it was part of the daily ritual [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, bnighten@usatoday.com, USA TODAY Sports If Dick Allen acted the way everyone wanted during the tempestuous days of race relations in Philadelphia, he might have been inducted into [...]

Byline: John Perrotto, @Jperrotto, Special for USA TODAY Sports In the days leading up to the World Series, Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost talked about how his catcher, Salvador [...]

Byline: Paul White, @PBJWhite, USA TODAY Sports When Stephen Strasburg throws the first pitch of the Washington Nationals' Division Series Game1 today, don't flash back to the 2012 playoffs. There's [...]

Byline: Josh Peter, @joshpeter11, USA TODAY Sports People are lining up for autographs from Mo'ne Davis, the 13-year-old pitching sensation from Philadelphia, and some of them are cashing in. A [...]

The New York Islanders announced Tuesday that Jon Ledecky and Scott Malkin are buying a substantial minority interest in the team with the plan to eventually run the franchise. Charles [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, bnighten@usatoday.com, USA TODAY Sports Derek Jeter doesn't remember the exact moment they met, but the two will be forever linked for their prodigious achievements. Surely, they will [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, bnighten@usatoday.com, USA TODAY Sports Derek Jeter doesn't remember the exact moment they met, but the two will be forever linked for their prodigious achievements. Surely, they will [...]

Byline: Bruce Horovitz, @brucehorovitz, USA TODAY Every few decades -- when timing, talent and circumstance coincide -- the All-Star Game becomes a must-watch marketing event. With a literal and cinematic [...]

Tyler Kepner, The New York Times: 'Tony Gwynn may have embodied the game of baseball better than anyone else who has played. It was not because Gwynn, who died of [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, bnighten@usatoday.com, USA TODAY Sports Barry Bonds was shopping Monday in San Francisco when he picked up his cellphone and couldn't believe what he was hearing. Tony Gwynn [...]

Byline: C. Trent Rosecrans, @ctrent, USA TODAY Sports Trevor Bell walked into Tempe Diablo Stadium, fresh off the Cincinnati Reds bus from their training camp in Goodyear, Ariz., and had [...]

Byline: Ben Fowlkes, @BenFowlkesMMA, USA TODAY Sports Nick Newell was a young boy when he first met Jim Abbott, the former Major League Baseball pitcher who, like Newell, was born [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale David Ortiz is putting on one of the greatest shows in World Series history, tormenting the St. Louis Cardinals with his bat and invigorating the Boston Red [...]

Byline: Ray Glier, @RayGlier The Louisville Slugger was the house bat of baseball for more than 100 years, as iconic a piece of hardware as there is in the history [...]

Byline: Paul White, @pbjwhite, USA TODAY Sports The Mike Trout-Bryce Harper debate could dominate All-Star Games for the next decade or more. It's certainly not going away in its second [...]

Byline: Ted Berg, @OGTedBerg, USA TODAY Sports In honor of new first baseman Nick Swisher, the Cleveland Indians have rechristened Section 117 of Progressive Field as 'Bro-h-i-o' for the seven [...]

Byline: Chad Jennings The series started with a practical joke, continued with an internal controversy and finished with a handshake. In his final trip to Kansas City -- where he [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, @BNightengale, USA TODAY Sports They had an age gap of 60 years, were born in different countries and played baseball in enormously different eras. Still, Stan Musial [...]

Cal Ripken Jr., who helped revolutionize the shortstop position, got his own statue at Camden Yards, and two who followed in his path Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez were there [...]

The Boston Red Sox paid a final tribute to longtime player, coach, manager and broadcaster Johnny Pesky, all donning his No. 6 for Tuesday night's game at Fenway Park against [...]