Ruth was back in town. “In all the years the writer has witnessed baseball in Boston,” The Globe’s Melville E. Webb Jr. wrote, “He never has seen a former home team player so ‘ridden’ by the normally friendly fans.” But it was not the Babe who was booed.

Yesterday.” In it, he describes the halcyon days of his early childhood, when his family lived on the far Southside. He and a friend snuck into Comiskey Park one day: To come out blinking at last into the roaring stands, with the striped sun on them. ...

I’m going to take that submarining busher’s next pitch and kill it—I just have to remember to crowd in so he doesn’t get me on the inside corner. On Tuesdays I feel like I’m Lou Gehrig. It’s April 30, 1939, and Joe Gordon is patting me on the back for...

During his time with the Chicago White Sox, he led the league in strikeouts twice and had seasons where he pitched well over 400 innings. For whatever reason, it was impossible to score a run off of him, even in the deadball era. A 1.82 ERA is amazing...

Among the players that Canseco named as fellow PED abusers were Mark McGwire, Jason GIambi, Roger Clemens and Rafael Palmeiro. Needless to, massive scandal ensued. Carl Mays is on this list for a rather unique reason. Pitching for the Yankees in 1920,...