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Byline: Cindy Boren The death of Pete Rose, baseball's all-time hits leader, does not mean his banishment from Major League Baseball in 1989 over gambling accusations is automatically lifted or [...]

Byline: Thomas Boswell Before the 1979 season, Pete Rose signed a $3.225 million free agent contract with Philadelphia, a benchmark at the time. Rose called the four-year deal 'so much [...]

Byline: Cindy Boren The death of Pete Rose, baseball's all-time hits leader, does not mean his banishment from Major League Baseball in 1989 over gambling accusations is automatically lifted or [...]

Byline: Kevin B. Blackistone For more than half a century, or just about all his adult life, football was all Eddie Robinson did. It was his passion. It was his [...]

Byline: Frederic J. Frommer David Cone wasn't much of a believer in baseball destiny when he took the mound on Yogi Berra Day at Yankee Stadium 25 years ago Thursday. [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes BALTIMORE - Baltimore Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman kicked for the Oregon State football team as a freshman. He was named the College World Series most outstanding player [...]

Byline: Des Bieler As the coach of Oklahoma's Little League team noted, if one saw a different player, in a different game, get hit in the head with a pitch [...]

Byline: Frederic J. Frommer As he dealt with the immediate fallout from the Watergate break-in during the summer of 1972, President Richard M. Nixon set aside time for a different [...]

Byline: Kevin B. Blackistone Jackie Robinson hadn't wanted to throw out the first ball at Game 2 of the 1972 World Series and address the public 25 years after he [...]

Byline: Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Julia Mio Inuma The Oxford English Dictionary recently announced its word of the year 'vaxx,' reflecting another tough pandemic year everyone is grinding through. [...]

Byline: Cindy Boren For much of Ray Fosse's life, the moment was inescapable even though it occurred long before memes and social media came into being. He was the recipient [...]

Byline: Michael Lee Before Bud Selig committed to bringing Henry Aaron back to his first baseball home, Bill Bartholomay, the president of Aaron's Atlanta Braves, issued a warning about pursuing [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer SEATTLE - They knew at 3:52 p.m. here Sunday. The Seattle Mariners, a motley collection of young, old and undervalued players that squeezed 90 victories out of [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty Inside Jim Flinn's memory, May 11, 1969, is a web of fuzzy details, a kaleidoscope of greens and grays, aside from the moment that couldn't be more [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes Jake Cronenworth, a 27-year-old second baseman for the San Diego Padres, can't explain why he is able to make contact so frequently at a time when major [...]

Byline: Scott Allen Relief pitcher Jack Aker was on the mound at Yankee Stadium when play was halted to announce Apollo 11's landing on the moon July 20, 1969. Five [...]

Byline: David Von Drehle For Print Use Only. Long before the television impresario Ted Turner marketed the Atlanta Braves as 'America's Team,' Atlanta had no big league team at all. [...]

Byline: Michael Lee The mistake in trying to classify Hank Aaron as simply some triumphant figure who overcame racism to achieve baseball immortality is that it doesn't do justice to [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga On June 8, 2010, Stephen Strasburg made what many regard as the most highly anticipated debut of any player in the history of Major League Baseball. In [...]

Byline: Jake Russell Two days after his team took part in the protests across sports against racial injustice and police brutality, Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts's voice was heard [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin You never know whom fate will choose to be a postseason hero. Some years, it's Derek Jeter, Madison Bumgarner or David Ortiz. Other years, it's Mark Lemke [...]

Byline: Cindy Boren In the battle of Tom vs. Tom, Mets fans are coming down squarely on the side of their guy. Tom Brady landed on the wrong side of [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen April 15 was an important sports anniversary. On April 15, 1947, baseball player Jackie Robinson played his first major league game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Most kids [...]

Byline: Ronald G. Shafer On Monday, every player in Major League Baseball will wear Jackie Robinson's No. 42 to honor the player who broke baseball's color barrier on April 15, [...]

Byline: Scott Allen The biggest mood in the Nationals' booze-soaked clubhouse after the team clinched a trip to the World Series on Tuesday night belonged to a surprising source: normally [...]

Byline: Janice Lynch Schuster Janice Lynch Schuster is a freelance writer who lives in Riva, Md. For all I know about a moment in Washington baseball history from April 20, [...]

Byline: Scott Allen Former major league first baseman and outfielder Bill Buckner, who won a batting title with the Chicago Cubs in 1980 but was best remembered for the error [...]

Byline: Heather Benjamin Dear Bryce, To deal with my heartbreak over being dumped, I am writing you this letter chronicling the story of our love. (My therapist says I don't [...]

Byline: David Marino-Nachison Don Newcombe, an early African American pitching star who helped integrate major league baseball and whose struggle with alcoholism led him to become one of the first [...]

Byline: Editorial BoardOF ALL the statistics that define the glorious baseball career of Frank Robinson, perhaps the most telling -- that which sums up his character and greatness -- is [...]

Byline: Kevin B. BlackistoneA few seasons after Jackie Robinson retired, Frank Robinson did something Jackie only dreamed of, something he swore he would never do, something that ate at him [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes WASHINGTON - On a dreary day, in the midst of a long and draining weekend, in the midst of a long and draining season, a 39-year-old bearded [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes At the news conference in which he was announced as a National League All-Star along with Washington Nationals teammates Max Scherzer and Sean Doolittle, Bryce Harper sat [...]

Byline: Thomas Boswell Next week's All-Star Game and Home Run Derby are a perfect chance for Washington to celebrate and appreciate Bryce Harper for all he has done for the [...]

Byline: Thomas Boswell In the summer of 1969, I was not at Woodstock. I was a 21-year-old counselor at a summer camp in Virginia 100 miles south of Washington. That's [...]

Byline: Neil Greenberg Ask anyone for a list of baseball's greatest players and chances are you get a consensus on a few names such as Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Ted [...]

Byline: Jorge Castillo WASHINGTON - A toothy smile, pure joy distilled to its simplest essence, radiated across Juan Soto's face during his first home run trot as a major leaguer [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt Just as Jose Altuve scooped up a grounder in right field for the final out Wednesday night, securing the Astros' first-ever World Series Championship, the national anthem [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga How to make Mike Trout look unsettled on a baseball field: Try a fastball on the hands followed by a slider away. He might miss his pitch. [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes Ryan Zimmerman thinks some people in baseball misunderstand Seattle Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano. One might think that public perception of a man a league and continent [...]

Byline: Travis M. AndrewsOzzy Osbourne and the bat.It remains one of rock-and-roll's most, well, rock-and-roll stories. Nothing better explains Ozzy's legacy, and no incident better highlights why parents were terrified [...]

Byline: Jacob BogageIn the grainy footage, a giant of a man, wearing a dark baseball uniform, walks past the camera holding two bats. Another man, in a white uniform, walks [...]

Byline: Fredrick Kunkle Chris Rothe hit the jackpot this weekend with the stuff of penny candy. Sixty-three years after Mickey Mantle's picture went inside packs of Bowman bubble gum, a [...]

Byline: Scott Allen Don't ever say Bryce Harper never did anything for you, Nationals fans. In addition to providing a memory that no one at Nationals Park for Monday night's [...]

Byline: Jorge Castillo PHILADELPHIA -- A day after Jayson Werth publicly acknowledged his professional baseball career is over, Washington Nationals owner Mark Lerner was on the phone Thursday to inform [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin It would have been January 1945. It would have been somewhere in Manhattan, out where the Irish people gathered. It must have been cold out, driving Joe [...]

Byline: Adam Kilgore On Sept. 29, 2002, at a venue then known as Pro Player Stadium, Tim Raines played the final baseball game of his 23-year career. He reached base [...]

Byline: Jorge Castillo SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - The Washington Nationals' individual accolades continued Wednesday when Daniel Murphy was named the MLBPA's National League Most Outstanding Player, as voted on by his [...]

Byline: Jorge Castillo WASHINGTON - Tears were welling in Gio Gonzalez's eyes during his pregame warmup routine Wednesday night when he put his red Washington Nationals cap over his face [...]

Byline: KK Ottesen Washington Nationals Manager Johnnie 'Dusty' Baker Jr., 67, began his major league baseball career 48 years ago as a player with the Atlanta Bravesand then the Los [...]