Longform
How gambling built baseball, and then almost destroyed it
What became known as the “Black Sox Scandal” rocked professional baseball. But it wasn’t an aberration in a...
A Complete History of Batting Stances
If there's a baseball bat around it's hard to resist picking it up and taking a stance. We've...
How Joe Jackson conspired to lose the World Series
Joe Jackson batted .375 with 12 hits in the eight games of the 1919 World Series. He led...
The smog that strangled Stan Musial’s hometown of Donora, Pennsylvania
What would it take for a small town with a population under 10,000 to be known for something...
The mysterious death of Red Sox manager Chick Stahl
A century ago when one of Boston's most famous citizens killed himself under strange circumstances in a gruesome...
Ty Cobb’s horror: Murder in Royston, Georgia
When Ty Cobb arrived in Royston, Georgia, on August 10, 1905, his father was dead from a shotgun...