Babe Ruth

Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, and Honus Wagner were not exactly role models off the field when picked eighty years ago for the first Hall class.

Until just a few years ago, sports analytics experts believed hot streaks like the Mets star Daniel Murphy’s were a statistical fluke. Now? Not so much.

Even Rodriguez bashers should recognize that a new book about him and doping in baseball misses the point (and if you think the problem is bloated stats, you missed it, too).

An exhaustive new life of basketball great Michael Jordan details his early encounters with racism, his dad’s alleged sexual abuse, and the family’s moonshining past.

Ted Williams sunbathes, the Babe gets a big one, Mr. October in winter, and two Yanks before their historic race to 60. A look at the best of the Boys of Summer in the sunshine leagues.

As the backlog of worthy candidates grows larger, the Hall of Fame still hasn’t figured out how to reform its obsolete voting system, or how to deal with players who used steroids.

On the last day of September in 1927, Babe Ruth stepped to the plate and hit his 60th home run. Bill Bryson on the summer that made Ruth’s career. An excerpt from his new book, One Summer: America, 1927