“Some fans are indignant and abusive when special police make attempts to recover balls hit into the crowd,” a baseball newspaper called the Sporting Life complained in 1915, according to a ...

Countless fans will bring their gloves to Major League Baseball games this week, hoping to snag one of the most iconic of American souvenirs — a baseball. But 100 years ago, doing so could land ...

"When I hear about fans getting injured at baseball games, specifically from foul balls, I get upset, as this could be a non-issue if stadiums had full netting all around," Skopp says. "I realized ...