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Just when is this ticket from?

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- It does not currently hang at CHS Field alongside Kevin Millar's No. 15, Darryl Strawberry's No. 17 and the other digits formally retired by the St. Paul Saints. But within the world of this ballclub that serves as the Triple-A affiliate of the nearby Twins, there is an understanding that Larry

Mike Veeck had a documentary to promote, but he couldn’ t start without getting one thing off his chest. Veeck, the one-time White Sox marketing executive under his dad, former Sox owner Bill Veeck, is the subject of“ The Saint of Second Chances,” an upcoming Netflix documentary by Jeff Malmberg and Morgan Neville to be released Tuesday. Veeck’ s story probably sounds...

90 years ago today, on Aug. 31, 1932, the Cubs staged the greatest extra-inning comeback in team history. And they did it despite batting out of order during their game-winning rally. .......... ...

Eleventh in a series of posts about Cubs coaches. .......... The history of coaches for base runners is as long as the history of professional baseball. The Cincinnati Red Stockings became the...

Second in a series of posts about Cubs coaches. The previous post described Otto Knabe, their first coach. .......... When Manager Fred Mitchell hired Otto Knabe before the 1918 season, coaches...

During the long history of Major League baseball, many parks have been associated with unusually short outfield walls, from Chicago's Lake Front Park in 1883-84 to Houston's Crawford Boxes today. T...

Baseball players don’t necessarily have to be great to be entertaining.

Trevor Megill touching 99 mph already? That seems pretty notable!

share-square-855841 CHICAGO -- There is history and then there is the stuff of myth and legend. The origin of the ivy that clings to the brick outfield wall at Wrigley Field has a little bit of everything intertwined. The story that has persisted for generations has been that Bill Veeck Jr. -- the Hall of Fame executive and promoter -- not only came up with the idea for the ivy, but planted it in an overnight operation in 1937. Veeck himself helped perpetuate that tale in an autobiography. "Gre...