Vaughn, right, came to the mound to visit with pitcher Tom Gordon in the eighth inning. He said he didn’t hear the fans calling his name. Thousands of them were at Fenway Park yesterday, rhythmically chanting something about wanting Mo. The Red Sox had...

When he bounded out of the dugout at precisely 4:48 p.m. to start his trek to the visiting bullpen to warm up, the reaction was a hearty mixture of cheers and boos, and I would say that the boos predominated. But by the time Roger had finished...

But there is an aspect of Ted Williams’s baseball life that is underrated. Didn’t you ever wonder how an 83-year-old veteran, a symbol of baseball the way it used to be, could have so much in common with contemporary players such as Garciaparra, Mark...

We simply don't know what's going to happen and whether Fielder stays productive through age-36 or suddenly falls off a cliff in three or four years is largely a mystery to us. The Tigers will hope for the former, obviously, but perhaps more...

The crowning blow was delivered by Mike Piazza with a deep home run crushed off Carlos Almanzar while Joe Torre rested Mariano Rivera and hid Roger Clemens. Mo didn’t often resemble the American League MVP he had once been, but show him Wells and he...

Carlos Osorio/AP Baseball’s historical landscape is littered with big, heavy sluggers who didn’t last long. Careers tend to end abruptly for the likes of Greg Luzinski, Bob Horner, Bye Bye Balboni, Kent Hrbek, Mo Vaughn, even all the way back to Hack...