1987 was the first year I truly started paying attention to baseball statistics. I didn’t really get to watch any baseball; while I experienced the 1986 Braves season and that year’s playoffs on TV, I ...

Even now, 35 years later, opening a pack of 1987 Topps feels like home. The wood-grain borders welcome you with open arms, like the memory of wedging yourself into the corner of the comfortable but ...

Documentary spotlights former Lamar University coach Jim Gilligan and the minor league 1987 Salt Lake Trappers' ...

Former Lamar head baseball coach Jim Gilligan is featured in a new documentary titled “The Streak.” The film highlights his ...

Former Cardinals head coach Jim Gilligan is featured in a new documentary titled “The Streak.” The film highlights his ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jerry Beach covers New York sports and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Most of baseball’s timeless rules and tradition have expired in ...

I love the Junk Wax Era of baseball cards. But if you’ve read anything baseball-card related I’ve written the past few years, or if you follow me on Twitter, you already knew that. Those cards were a ...

In an article that appeared on Baseball Prospectus recently, I concluded that, in spite of an across-the-board decrease in player salaries, the winter's market has done a very efficient job of ...

JAMIE: GOOD LUCK TO PIERCE. AND WE WANTED TO SHARE THIS PHOTO. AT GILL STADIUM TONIGHT, THEY HONORED THE LATE, GREAT UMPIRE RAY VALLIERE WITH A BRONZE PLAQUE. RAY WAS THE USA BASEBALL UMPIRE OF THE ...