Starting in December, Joe Posnanski began counting down the 100 greatest baseball players. Initially, we published one a day to count down to Opening Day — but with the start of the season pushed back ...

Ask most Americans what's special about “April 15” and they’ll reflexively answer, “Tax Day.” But name the same date to baseball people or civil rights activists, and they are just as likely to ...

Satchel Paige was one of the most fascinating baseball players the game has ever seen. His professional career stretched across five decades, starting in 1927 with the Birmingham Black Barons and ...

Journalist Larry Tye details the life and times of negro league pitcher Satchel Paige in the new biography Satchel. Paige was a dazzling pitcher with a scorching fastball. A decade before Jackie ...