“My goal in life is to keep his name alive. He was a wonderful father and I remember him as that and just not as a baseball player.” Ruth's daughters did just that, acting as spokespeople for ...

Posnanski, whose 2021 best selling book “The Baseball 100” ranked the game’s greatest players, ranked Mays as No. 1 and Ruth as No. 2. There is a term in baseball to describe Mays’ rare ...

Shohei Ohtani broke a huge barrier that has sat in place for a century when he arrived as a two-way player ... season ends is still fair. In Ruth’s time, baseball clubs only played 152 to ...