If your first year collecting baseball cards was the 1970s or 1980s, good chance you learned who the best players were by ...

Much like the 1979 and 1980 Topps sets that followed it, the 1978 Topps set is primarily known for a single, quintessential rookie card. In 1979, it was Ozzie Smith. In 1980, it was Rickey Henderson.

Youth baseball segregation was alive and well in Oxford, Miss., in 1978 -- until my dad killed it, writes IndyStar sports columnist Gregg Doyel.

Indeed, if anything, after watching 1978 baseball, you'll realize this about the game in 2018: (1) Hitting is much more difficult now, given how hard the pitchers throw; (2) Pitching is much more ...

Red Sox could use the 1978 'Boston Massacre' as motivation for their showdown with the Yankees. Published: ; Aug. 06, 2010, 6:23 a.m.

Lessons from Tony La Russa During the 1978 season, there weren’t many disappointments. “We went to the park every day knowing we were going to win,” said Dotson who spent 12 years in the ...

Bob Brower, a 1978 graduate and the only athlete ever to letter in four sports in one year at James Madison High School, is one of those legendary figures. The type of figure whose name has grown ...

Local baseball cheerleaders then stepped up to the plate with an idea to build a baseball park that would see action until 1978. Baseball cheerleaders Konrad Testwuide, L.E. Larson, C.E. Broughton ...

Upon his hire in 1978, baseball was an afterthought at Kentucky. Four decades later, UK opened Kentucky Proud Park , a sparkling, state-of-the-art facility that cost $49 million to build and has ...