Writing a compelling biography of a famous major league baseball player from Puerto Rico who died at age 38 in an airplane crash while transporting relief items to Nicaraguan earthquake victims is ...

Washington Post associate editor David Mananiss talks about his biography "Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero" and Roberto Clemente's career as a baseball player. Finally tonight, ...

Good morning and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m novelist and punk historian Jim Ruland, and this week we’re celebrating America’s pastime. We’re currently midway through the MLB ...

Jane Leavy’s second book, a critically acclaimed, New York Times best-selling biography of Mickey Mantle in 2010, has sold 211,000 copies in hardback and 60,000 in paperback. Such commercial success ...

It’s difficult to think of a better way to greet the return of baseball after its long annual hibernation than by recalling and celebrating the brief but incandescent career of Mark Steven Fidrych, or ...

Milwaukee's Larry Baldassaro is one of our best baseball writers. We asked him about his new biography of Tony Lazzeri, in advance of his April 15 virtual book event at Boswell Books. UW-Milwaukee ...

Clayton Kershaw is going to have a book published on Tuesday. It is a biography of his career and life written by Andy McCullough, who also functions as a senior writer for The Athletic. The legendary ...

MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: This is KPBS Midday Edition, I am Maureen Cavanaugh. San Diego can claim baseball legend Ted Williams as a native son, but his great days as the splendid splinter took lace in ...

Author K. Patrick Ober will give a “The Trouble Begins At 5:30” talk on Wednesday, June 8, at 5:30 p.m., following a 5 p.m. reception at the Twain House & Museum, 351 Farmington Ave., Hartford. Ober ...

Baseball is one of the most popular sports in Japan. It was introduced to Japan in 1872 by Horace Wilson, who taught at the Kaisei School in Tokyo. The first baseball team was called the Shimbashi ...