As a teenager, Jim Bark would wait outside the visiting teams clubhouse at County Stadium in Milwaukee hoping to get an autograph from some of his favorite baseball players. The Racine, Wisconsin ...

Don Sutton, 75.7% (70.1): Leads or is in top three in many all-time Dodgers pitching categories, but always seems to struggle to get respect. It took him five tries to get into the real Hall of Fame, ...

After originally committing to FSU football, Mauer decided to go the baseball route after being selected No. 1 overall in the 2001 MLB Draft by his hometown Twins. I think anyone would agree he made ...

Uecker ended his major league playing career with a 200 batting average in 297 games. He had some big moments, including a hit off Sandy Koufax. And he could boast that he caught two of the best pitch ...

Did Billy Wagner's election just kick open the door for Kenley Jansen and Craig Kimbrel (and possibly Aroldis Chapman, too)?

Pete Alonso and Scott Boras apparently aren't on great terms with Mets owner Steve Cohen, who said that he has not enjoyed ...

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only ...

Torborg signed with the Dodgers out of Rutgers prior ... His first no-hitter behind the plate was Sandy Koufax’s perfect game in 1965. “I didn’t do anything but catch the ball, but what ...

Welcome to the Hall of Fame, Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner. It's a remarkable achievement to survive the gauntlet of baseball writers to get elected to Cooperstown: After all, the ...

Rosenwald Jeff Torborg, an unassuming baseball lifer who caught three no-hitters, including Sandy Koufax’s perfect game ... and the Dodgers signed him in 1963 with a $100,000 bonus (the ...

J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball content. A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for daily newspapers in California, J.P. covered MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Los ...