Baseball

A boy swings from home base.

The promise and peril of the Dominican baseball pipeline

Sports

Dominicans alone now number more than one-tenth of all major league baseball players. But for those who don’t make it to the big leagues, what do they have to fall back on?

Design for the Real World: Ballpark

Arts, Culture & Media
Pittsburgh Pirates’ Gift Ngoepe became the first African-born player in MLB history.

Gift Ngoepe is the first African-born player to join baseball’s major league

Culture
Lee Chang-hoo (l) and Kwon Soon-chul (r) started a baseball podcast, along with another visually impaired baseball fan. But they don't tell their listeners that they're blind. "They probably think we're just average, amateur sports fans."

The pace of baseball makes it perfect for its blind fans in Korea

Sports
Team Israel

The ‘Mensch on the Bench’ might be Israel’s baseball team’s secret weapon

Sports
South Korea's Lee Yong-kyu watches the ball after hitting an RBI double at the Premier12 international baseball tournament at Tokyo Dome in 2015.

Korean baseball can teach the MLB a thing or two about bat flipping

Sports

Major League Baseball looks down on bat flips. But in South Korea, bat flips are common, beautiful and righteous acts of baseball awesomeness.

A memorial of flowers and photos are placed outside a gate at Marlins Park in honor of Miami Marlins starting pitcher Jose Fernandez who was killed in a boating accident.

Miami mourns a baseball star

Sports

There was a special connection between Jose Fernandez and the city of Miami. And his recent death of the Miami Marlins pitcher is hitting the community hard.

St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers set to decide World Series champion in Game 7

Arts, Culture & Media

In the World Series, Game 6 Thursday night was legendary. Now, the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers will meet in a decisive Game 7 tonight.

How bigotry crushed the dreams of an all-black Little League team

Culture

Just one day before the killing of Emmett Till, a championship black Little League team from South Carolina was invited to the Little League World Series — but wasn’t allowed to play.

Chicago Cubs

The hapless Cubs have cultivated ‘a slightly elevated form of mediocrity this year’

Sports

The Cubs are going to the National League Championship Series. But for long-suffering fans, this seeming success could be just another example of the Cubs snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.