Roger Maris, Ted Williams, and the Two Baseball Milestones Nobody Saw
Maris broke Ruth's home run record and Williams played his last game to near-empty stadiums More »
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Henry D. Fetter is the author of Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball and has written widely about the business and politics of sports. More
Maris broke Ruth's home run record and Williams played his last game to near-empty stadiums More »
Why we shouldn't pay attention to Boston and Tampa Bay's fight for second place More »
Whose idea was it to have the outcome of the world soccer championship determined by penalty kicks in the case of a tie? More »
Changes in the sport and society at large have made the "mid-summer classic" less and less relevant More »
Rafael Nadal won his sixth title this weekend. The story of two fellow champions the Open would prefer to forget about. More »
There are no men or women from the United States ranked in the top ten for singles, for the first time in four decades. Why this isn't as much of a nadir as it sounds like. More »
Team owners are beholden to the players and to their own desire for profits. Where do the people who come to see the games fit in? More »
The team's past host city and its current one can both see the upside in the MLB's seizing of its daily operations and finances More »
The home run king's conviction and the conversation surrounding it reveals something special about the way people talk about baseball More »
The Confederation of African Football has postponed a match that was scheduled to be played in the country later this month. But will the protest against the regime last? More »
The sport continues to increase in popularity over baseball. Will it ever reach a saturation point? More »
Legend has it the Kansas City Chiefs owner came up with it—but history suggests otherwise More »
Football players had been graduating from the school with degrees in sociology, without taking actual classes in the department More »
Things have changed since Cleveland Indians pitching great Bob Feller missed four seasons to serve in World War II More »
Horse racing once drew huge live crowds. Now attendance is one third of what it was 20 years ago. What happened? More »
As the U.S. Open wraps up this weekend, a look at a former powerhouse nation that has struggled in recent years More »
Fifty years ago this week, the U.S. men's track team met with crushing defeat, stoking anxieties about the fate of the country More »
Independence Day marks a lesser-known milestone: a black boxer won the "fight of the century" exactly 100 years ago, dealing a blow to white supremacy More »
A dictator, past or present, is apparently the key to winning soccer's biggest competition More »
Justice Stevens, who retires today, helped shape how our national pastime is governed while on a Congressional committee 59 years ago More »
