Perhaps my favorite thing about baseball is its inherent unpredictability. Even in this day and age when computer nerds control every aspect of the game—from transactions and contracts to lineups and ...

In "Make Me Commissioner," Jane Leavy breaks down how the sport lost its emotional core, and how to get it back.

Baseball is back! It is perhaps appropriate that a column on the topic should come out on April Fools’ Day, because Major League Baseball has of late made a bit of a mockery of its traditional April ...

In 2020, Kim Ng, AB ’90, made headlines when she became the first woman ever named general manager of a Major League Baseball team. A University of Chicago softball captain who wrote her thesis on ...

Baseball is an itinerant industry by nature. Players, coaches, executives, agents, analysts, scouts, and writers spend the spring, summer, and fall bouncing around the continent, swapping one set of ...

Mike Piellucci is D Magazine 's sports editor. He is a former staffer at The Athletic and VICE, and his freelance work has been featured in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Los Angeles Magazine ...

Cricket requires a large and rather elaborate playing ground, so Cincinnati cricket teams competed in outlying areas including Camp Washington, Walnut Hills and the far West End. You can blame the ...

Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent signs an autograph for Louis Carrons, 12, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., during Los Angeles Dodgers baseball spring training in Vero Beach, Fla., ...