Joe Tinker was an early 20th century baseball star who played with the Chicago Cubs. One statistic, wins-over-replacement, ranks the pro shortstop’s defense fifth all time, behind Ozzie Smith, Mark ...

Perry was born in 1938 in Williamston, North Carolina, to a family of athletes. Originally an infielder, he made the switch to pitching in high school. He attended Campbell University in the 1950s, ...

The accusations are on the table. As Gordon Edes reported on ESPN Boston, Jack Morris said he thinks that Clay Buchholz was throwing a spitter in his start against the Toronto Blue Jays last week, and ...

Perry was introduced to the spitball by Bob Shaw in 1964 when they played together on the San Francisco Giants. While many attempts were made to catch him in the act, they were all futile enough.

The MLB discourse of late has been dominated by the use of foreign substances by pitchers. For the uninitiated, pitchers increasingly seem to be using various concoctions to improve their grip on the ...

Elwin Charles “Preacher” Roe, the cunning left-handed pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the late 1940s and early ‘50s who was selected to four consecutive All-Star teams, died Sunday of colon cancer ...