On July 28, 1962, the Philadelphia Phillies were scheduled to play the Pittsburgh Pirates in Philadelphia. A Pennsylvania Railroad train left Harrisburg at 5 p.m. bound for Philadelphia with Midget ...

Fifty years ago, John Glenn orbited the earth, the Rocket entered the world and a New York baseball team burned up on re-entry to the National League. That summer, Americans could hear Elvis Presley ...

Long before the San Francisco Giants ended a 56-season World Series championship drought in 2010, the club's first National League pennant winner since the move to the West Coast gave the baseball ...

The Mets won just 40 games and lost 120, the most defeats in a single season in the modern history of baseball. Manager Casey Stengel theatrically pointing the way at the start of spring training in ...

Some 1962 Giants got reacquainted on Friday for the first time since the 2010 Giants won the World Series, so they naturally were asked if 2010 eased the pain of 1962. "I don't think so. That's a long ...

Rhode Island lost one of its greatest athletic legends over the weekend when former Major League pitcher and longtime college and youth coach Dave Stenhouse died at the age of 90. Stenhouse’s death ...

BRIDGETON — Members of the Bridgeton High School NJ Group IV team gathered on Saturday, 50 years after winning the state championship in 1962. First baseman Denny Woolman came all the way from ...

Among the 65 former players and managers scheduled to be on hand Aug. 27 when the Mets hold their first Old-Timers’ Day since 1994 are five of the 15 living members from the franchise’s inaugural ...

This column, by Chicago Defender sports writer A.S. “Doc” Young, first appeared in the Aug. 4, 1962, issue of The Sporting News, after Jackie Robinson had broken another color barrier, becoming the ...

Not long after the New York Mets set the modern record for losses in a single season in 1962, Craig Anderson was given a packet recapping the carnage day by day, game by miserable game. A pitcher on ...