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Her sudden sprint to celebrity started on a small mound of dirt in South Williamsport, Pa., 46 feet from home plate, winging 71 mile-per-hour fastballs and sweeping curveballs, braids bouncing [...]

Maybelle Blair walked into a sporting goods store in her early 90s with a mission: to try on a pair of spikes. The salesman suggested that she meant to ask [...]

Mike Montgomery once threw a ''golden pitch'' in a World Series, but at 32 he is in minor league camp for the Mets hoping for one more chance for things [...]

The slugging outfielder wants to stay with the team that drafted him, but he does not want to talk about a contract extension once the season begins. TAMPA, Fla. -- [...]

San Diego's 22-year-old superstar discussed not doing the home run derby, growing up around major leaguers and how he and his team have a surprisingly old-school approach. Like all transcendent [...]

Bench knew, played with or played against all of the 10 Hall of Famers who died in the past year. ''You sit there and you are numb, and you remember [...]

Major League Baseball, it must be said, remains wildly popular. It has by far the longest schedule of any major sport -- 162 games per season -- yet averaged more [...]

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Elena Gustines grew up to be the kind of baseball [...]

Along with the rest of the world, athletes have had their careers upended by the coronavirus pandemic. They are giving The New York Times an intimate look at their journeys [...]

A former Times columnist was struck by Carew's encounters with the police decades ago while playing with the Twins, and his outlook now. The tumult of recent weeks has made [...]

Along with the rest of the world, athletes have had their careers upended by the coronavirus pandemic. They are giving The New York Times an intimate look at their journeys [...]

SEATTLE -- Mike Redmond, the Colorado Rockies' bench coach, laughed at the improbability of a member of the 3,000-hit club devoting himself to the unheralded role of throwing batting-practice pitches. [...]

The ambient pop of a catcher's mitt greets you before you see the interior of the Lab. Inside the unmarked door on St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem, past the canvas [...]

For more than two years, David Wright had one goal in mind: to play for the Mets again. He thought his neck and shoulder problems were behind him after multiple [...]

LEADVILLE, Colo. -- As Goose Gossage, a coffee cup in hand, stepped onto the deck outside his cabin on a recent morning, he considered the view. Beyond the small lake [...]

Meet the durable, anytime bullpen ace. He is not the closer, yet he can be, at times. He is not the setup man, but he can fill that role, too. [...]

In one sense, there was nothing unusual about what Dwight Gooden was doing Tuesday night. In the spirit of the holiday season, he had been summoned to dress like Santa [...]

When the Yankees played the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night, Todd Frazier and Clint Frazier batted back-to-back in the Yankees lineup. Or was it Clint Frazier and Todd Frazier? [...]

Two young men found their gloves, grabbed a ball and played catch on a sunny afternoon in a city park on Monday. They said it felt good to throw again. [...]

As the Yankees' captain, Derek Jeter pointedly avoided introspection. He was part of so many indelible moments, and every game was a chance to make more. Ask Jeter for perspective [...]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The biggest question on the Mets' pitching staff took the mound Thursday afternoon for the second time this spring. In his second outing, after sitting [...]

When the MLB Network begins coverage of the World Baseball Classic on Monday, who better to analyze curveballs, sliders and splitters from around the world for the channel than John [...]

REGGIO EMILIA, Italy -- Mike Piazza was jet-lagged and hungry, though you wouldn't have known it from his smile as he navigated the obstacle course of hugs, kisses and handshakes. [...]

CHICAGO -- Curtis Granderson, a very professional outfielder, gives me a walking tour of his old haunts at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He points out the baseball stadium [...]

CLEVELAND -- It was not until last week that Kyle Schwarber realized he might be able to play in the World Series. He had visited the doctor almost monthly since [...]

CLEVELAND -- When Jason Kipnis was a boy, long before he helped the Cleveland Indians earn a spot in the World Series, he attended St. Norbert School, 21 miles from [...]

Ike Davis spoke Thursday about his affection for New York -- the state and the city. He began his professional career with the Brooklyn Cyclones in this Coney Island stadium. [...]

Of all the star athletes who have retired, you would think that Cal Ripken Jr. would want to sit back and relax. But baseball's Hall of Fame ironman still seems [...]

In his new autobiography, ''House of Nails: A Memoir of Life on the Edge,'' Lenny Dykstra emerges as a figure of enormous braggadocio who moves swiftly from roguish to Trumpian. [...]

OMAHA -- When a famous relative of Oklahoma State pitcher Tyler Buffett arrived at the family's rented lake house Sunday night for cheeseburgers and cheesecake, it took him a moment [...]

On the day he planned to make baseball history, Luke Salas got a ride in a 1950s-era clunker of a car to a field that was little more than a [...]

MIAMI -- The poster, the only prominent piece of memorabilia, hangs in the back of the shed next to the dusty old suitcase, a row of unused candles and a [...]

MESA, Ariz. -- Sean Doolittle, the ace reliever for the Oakland Athletics, would rather not be known that way. He has a charming impulse to ridicule anything that sounds absurd [...]

TAMPA, Fla. -- C. C. Sabathia still wears a brace to keep his degenerative right knee from collapsing. He still weighs 305 pounds, a few crumb cakes short of the [...]

Kieran Powell has had an enviable life as a professional cricket player. He has traveled the world playing a challenging game in balmy weather, while earning a lot of recognition [...]

Shortly after the Mets lost the World Series last month, Daniel Murphy stood at his Citi Field locker answering questions about his two ugly errors in the final two games [...]

''Now he's the competition,'' said Efraim Grinberg, the chief executive of Movado watches, chiding a reporter in his company's West 39th Street showroom on Tuesday, waiting for Derek Jeter to [...]

The question was delivered as directly as a right-down-the-pipe fastball: Did you expect this kind of season? But Chris Colabello read it like a backdoor slider. ''That's kind of a [...]

With three weeks left in the regular season, a tight playoff race, like the one between the Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays, can turn on the most trifling plays, [...]

ATLANTA -- The first time Andrelton Simmons set eyes on Didi Gregorius, what he noticed was not Gregorius's strong throwing arm, his fleet feet or anything he did with a [...]

It was around midnight, and Jose Reyes was sleeping in his Toronto home when his wife received a call from a Toronto Blue Jays trainer summoning him to the ballpark. [...]

When someone in a seat behind you pulls out a trumpet and begins loudly playing merengue, prompting dozens of passengers to rise and dance as your plane sits on a [...]

CINCINNATI -- The Futures Game is the last of the showcase events for players on the rise. Most of them are used to the attention, being veterans of the prospect [...]

It is all about production. Mark Teixeira has learned that lesson across 13 major league seasons. People love good players and loathe bad ones. He has been both. But the [...]