Bob Vanderberg

In the White Sox's 104 years of American League baseball, only three players named Garcia--all pitchers--have worn the uniform: Mike Garcia in 1960, Ramon in 1991 and now Freddy. Sox...

On June 23, 1895, a game against Cleveland was interrupted after the third inning so the entire Cubs team could be arrested for violating laws banning baseball on Sundays. While...

NATIONAL LEAGUE FOUNDED 1876 April 25, 1876 Chicago White Stockings -- later to become the Cubs -- make National League debut with 4-0 victory in Louisville. The team goes on...

Minneapolis De La Salle football coach Tony Johnson is expected to become the new head coach at Evanston, pending approval of the school's Board of Education at its meeting Monday...

On this final day, a crowd of 42,849 fans turned out on a glorious, sunny, autumn afternoon to say farewell to what had been proclaimed the "the Baseball Palace of...

Here it was, four years after Jackie Robinson had broken the color line with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and a Chicago baseball team finally was getting around to putting black players...

These days, Vic Lombardi is a golf pro in his native Fresno, Calif. In 1947, Lombardi was a 24-year-old left-hander in the Brooklyn Dodgers' starting rotation. He had a new...

In 1876, the nation's centennial year, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for his new invention, something called a telephone. Samuel Clemens, also known as Mark Twain, authored "The...

Now, with just one more trip to the old ballpark remaining, my childhood is coming back to me, more vivid than ever. I remember the ''L'' rides, from Oak Park...

Ralph Kramden was telling his wife, Alice, how socially superior he had been to all the other youngsters growing up in their Brooklyn neighborhood. ''I wasn`t like those other bums...