For many Jewish fans who collect baseball cards, the joy of opening a new pack and finding a Jewish player is second to none.

It was our intention to pursue the game — and its memories and myths — across the expanse of American history. We quickly developed an abiding conviction that the game of baseball offered a ...

Peter Dobens just wanted to verify what his dad, Ray, had told him all those years about the 1940s, and integrating professional baseball in Nashua, New Hampshire. So, Dobens, then the assignment ...

"Since the story of this game is essentially the story of America," says Burns, "the music in the film is also a history of American music." Baseball includes parlor music and folk music from the ...

In this year, however, the members of the freshman class established what was known as the "'66 baseball Club." They obtained permission from the Cambridge city government to use a part of the ...

Bob Uecker was the voice of his hometown Milwaukee Brewers who after a short playing career earned the moniker "Mr. Baseball" ...

While summers will never feel the same going forward without the voice of Bob Uecker humming on the radio, Mr. Baseball will forever be a fabric of Wisconsin threaded in Milwaukee Brewers history.

For more see ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues: En los barrios y las grandes ligas from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and Baseball: America's Homerun from the ...