The weather may not seem very summer like, but two words about to be uttered at Canal Park on Tuesday will certainly spark hope for warmer days ahead. "Play ball!" Baseball is back as the Akron ...

Hundreds of people cross the All-America Bridge, better known as the Y-Bridge, for the first time Oct. 31, 1981, between ...

[Editor’s Note: The video above shows FOX 8’s Gabe Spiegel throwing the opening pitch at an Akron RubberDucks game in 2018. How’d he do? ] Opening Day is set for April 6 and home games will ...

The team is rebranding as the Akron Sauerkraut Balls and Akron Devil Strips for a couple of games during the season, which will include seven t-shirt Tuesdays and 12 Saturday premium giveaways ...

Elyse Ball, Vice President, Programming ... But he believes the seven projects in Akron – five involving synthetic rubber and related materials – will move forward because they align with the polymer ...

The team's moniker, the "RubberDucks," pays homage to Akron's historical significance in the rubber industry, where it served as the birthplace of major tire and rubber companies like Goodyear, ...

The sauerkraut ball — northeastern Ohio’s answer to Proust’s madeleine. Fifteen years ago, in my husband’s hometown of Akron, otherwise known as the Rubber City of America, I tasted my ...