baseball

Toni Stone was the first woman to play regularly in a major-level professional baseball league. Turned away from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League because of her race, she played on men’s teams in the Negro Leagues in the 1940s and 50s.

The start of the Major League Baseball season is always a good time to reflect on the beauty of the “Grand Old Game.”

With the death to brain cancer of 57-year-old, 17-season Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield on Oct. 1, the last day of their season, the focus of the team playing in Baltimore against the Orioles was not on what happened on the field.

That rumbling sensation felt around New England coming down from Canada the evening of Sept. 15 was not an earthquake. It was the Boston Red Sox falling into the American League East division cellar after a loss to the Blue Jays in Toronto.

This week, youngsters between ages 10 and 12 from all over the globe head to Pennsylvania for the start of the Little League Baseball World Series in Williamsport. Ten United States regional champions and 10 international regional winners compete Aug. 16–27, playing 38 games in a double-elimination tournament to crown one winner.