History of Baseball

<p><span class="deck"> Foul was fair, and fair foul, when eight players of the championship White Sox conspired with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Abner Doubleday had an eventful life, but as far as we know, he never gave a thought to the game with which his name is so firmly linked</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Forget football, basketball, and all the other sports that are artificially regulated by the clock. Only baseball can truly reveal our national character. Only baseball can light our path to the future. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">“The public, so far as it knew of our playing, was shocked.”</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">What happened when a historian largely indifferent to the subject set out to write the script for Ken Burns’s monumental new documentary</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">BASEBALL WAS PLAYED FOR 30 YEARS BEFORE ANYONE THOUGHT ABOUT FINDING A WAY TO PROTECT PLAYERS’ FINGERS.</span></p>

<p>Bill Veeck changed baseball forever, integrating the American League in 1949 and creating a variety of stunts and promotions to bring more people to the stadium.</p>

<p>He was unlike any other baseball star in America, a blond-haired boy from the heartland whose raw power and mythical purity made him a hero.</p>

<p>A curious story of religion, sex, and baseball grew out of a long-forgotten postcard among her grandmother’s belongings.</p>

<p>One hundred years ago this month, the “House That Ruth Built” became the first true baseball stadium.</p>