Last weekend in downtown Chicago, the Cubs Convention passed for the second straight year without Ron Santo in attendance. Come this summer in upstate New York, Major League Baseball's annual Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will do the same. Even though

It’s a major-league stumper, the trivia question Kevin Towers breaks out when surrounded by baseball people who really think they know the game inside and out, upside-down and sideways. That is, name the only general manager who won the World Series the

On June 24, 2011, Texas third baseman Adrian Beltre celebrated the 13th anniversary of his first Major League ballgame by going 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles, a home run and two RBIs in the Rangers' 8-1 victory over the Mets. Beltre was 32 years and 78

According to recent revelations by the BBC, the prize jury assigned to choose the winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature had among its nominees Graham Greene, Robert Frost, E.M. Forster, Isak (‘Out of Africa’) Dinesen, and Mr. Hobbit himself, J.R.

VANCOUVER - It took 32 years of waiting for election to the Baseball Hall of Fame before it finally happened for Chicago Cubs third baseman Ron Santo last month. Unfortunately, the honour arrived about 18 months too late for Santo to make it to the induc

CHICAGO -- Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts said he talked to Theo Epstein, president of baseball operations, often during negotiations with Kerry Wood's agents. "We talked about what was best for the organization and this is it," Ricketts said Saturday, one d