When I was born in 1957, my older brother urged my parents not to name his baby brother Patrick (after our maternal great-grandfather) but rather Michael. That way, he could nickname me "Mickey," in ...

Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Mick" and "the Commerce Comet", was an American professional baseball player. Mantle played his entire Major League Baseball ...

When you get to know and spend time with two of your boyhood heroes, that's pretty cool stuff for anyone. Yet the stories that Bill Macatee weaves from an outstanding career in sports broadcasting go ...

SEATTLE -- The Mariners' Cal Raleigh hit his 50th homer Monday night, extending his major league record for home runs by a catcher and entering some elite company. Raleigh joined Mickey Mantle as the ...