Tim Tebow’s career in professional baseball is over.
Minnesota priest auctions off baseball card collection for charity
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Want more inspiring, positive news? Sign up for The Good Stuff, a newsletter for the good in life. It will brighten your inbox every Saturday morning. Father John Ubel has been collecting baseball cards for 50 y...
An Indiana university retires its mascot that shares a name with the Ku Klux Klan newspaper
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Students who attend Valparaiso University are Crusaders no more. The Lutheran university, aligning with schools and professional sports teams that have recently nixed racist mascots, has announced it will replace it...
There will be no inductees in the Baseball Hall of Fame class of 2021
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame class of 2021 is empty. None of the 25 eligible candidates received the minimum of 75% of ballots cast to be elected, according to a news release from the Hall of Fame Tuesday. Of ...
Hank Aaron rose to the top of baseball while facing pervasive racism. He leaves behind a powerful legacy
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Baseball legend Hank Aaron is remembered today as one of the greatest to ever play the game. Crucial to his legacy is that unlike his White counterparts, he pulled off his most significant achievements while endurin...
Hank Aaron, baseball legend and former home run king, dies at 86
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Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron, the Baseball Hall of Famer who broke Babe Ruth's all-time home run record and lived a life as an ambassador to the game, has died. He was 86. Aaron's former team, the Atlanta Braves, announ...
The Boston Red Sox just hired Bianca Smith — the first Black woman to coach in professional baseball history
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The Boston Red Sox just made history by hiring Bianca Smith, the first Black woman to coach in the history of professional baseball. Smith will serve as a minor league coach within the organization, based at the cl...
Joe Clark, the baseball bat-wielding principal who inspired the movie ‘Lean on Me,’ dies at age 82
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Joe Louis Clark, the hard-charging high school principal who inspired the movie "Lean on Me," has died at the age of 82, his family said in a statement Tuesday. Clark was the principal of Eastside High School in Pat...
What Cleveland’s baseball team got right
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Ray Halbritter is Oneida Indian Nation Representative and the principal organizer for the Change the Mascot campaign -- a national grassroots organization dedicated to ending the long-held R-word racial slur against ...
An Iowa boy is selling baseball bats he makes from fallen trees to raise money for storm victims
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Want more inspiring, positive news? Sign up for The Good Stuff, a newsletter for the good in life. It will brighten your inbox every Saturday morning. After a powerful wind storm struck Iowa in August, the city o...
A California man donated 25,000 baseball cards to a 9-year-old girl who lost her collection in a wildfire
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Reese Osterberg loves baseball. She loves watching baseball, she loves playing baseball and she loves baseball cards. "I like baseball cards because they are pictures of people doing happy stuff. Doing what they lo...
Major League Baseball and Players Association commit $10 million to increase Black representation in baseball
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In an effort to increase the representation of Black Americans in baseball, Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association are committing $ 10 million to The Players Alliance. A non-profit dedicated to racia...
Seattle Mariners president steps down after comments surface in which he disparaged baseball players
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Seattle Mariners president and CEO Kevin Mather resigned from the Major League Baseball club after disparaging comments he made earlier this month were made public over the weekend, according to an announcement Mond...