What his colleagues didn’t realize was that in the rare moments when Leanhardt wasn’t toiling away at the lab, he was moonlighting as a speedy shortstop in a local amateur baseball league.

An interview with the M.L.B. commissioner. By Matthew Cullen and Michael S. Schmidt A new baseball season is underway, and the sport is enjoying a sort of renaissance. Baseball is making more ...

In 1934, an American team featuring the best baseball players in the world – Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx and more – went on a barnstorming tour around Japan. More than half a million ...