Play Harder,” an illustrated history of Black baseball in the United States, arrives at a pivotal moment. The Trump administration, in its effort to scrub history that it says promotes “divisive, race ...

The book, “Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America,” is full of the historic photos and anecdotes you would expect to find in a coffee table book, but it also delves into some of the ...

Major League Baseball on Tuesday removed Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, two of the sport’s most famous players who ...

Each implicitly casts the universe of baseball as a magical land that touches, but maybe isn’t precisely part of, the “real” world in which we live. “The whole history of baseball,” the ...