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Mets vet blasts game-winning homer to end hitless streak, defeat rival
The solar eclipse passed, and then the Mets began the rocket-launching party.
The top 10 home run hitters in history
The greatest home run hitters in baseball history, counting down from 10 to 1.
Say Hey! Celebrating Willie Mays' 91st Birthday
The legendary Willie Mays, The Say Hey Kid" and "Buck", is celebrated for his 91st birthday on May 6th through photos of an amazing MLB career.
Yankees star plays emotional role in MLB tribute to Hank Aaron
Aaron Judge scored a run in the MLB All-Star Game Tuesday night, yet there’s no way that’s what he’ll remember most about this evening.
Man turns $100M sports memorabilia collection into new stock market
How a man turned his $100 million sports memorabilia collection into a new kind of stock market.
How dare A-Rod compare himself to Hank Aaron
I wasn’t born skeptical. It’s both an acquired and required taste. I’m even suspicious of the word. Why with a k and not a c? But when you spend 25...
How Hank Aaron rewarded a childhood plea to stay up late
The negotiations were simple: I begged. “No,” they said. I pleaded. “Nope,” they replied. I bargained: Let me stay up until 9 o’clock, and I’ll go to bed a half-hour...
Black players fondly remember 'regal' Hank Aaron
For Willie Randolph, it’s a bunch of photos he took at a Yankee Stadium suite a few years back. For Ken Singleton, it’s an autographed baseball from many years back....
Hank Aaron was a total package of baseball greatness
You know the sports expression “Great player, better person”? No one turns down that description. It can, however, carry the unintended consequence of underplaying an elite performer’s excellence at his...
Hank Aaron still holds the real home run record
Hank Aaron, one of the greatest baseball players of all time, died Friday at age 86. The Hall of Famer holds a host of records, from the most runs batted...
Hank Aaron was scarred by hatred-laced home run record chase
The moment became an iconic one, with the indelible image of Hank Aaron rounding the bases, being joined by two fans between second and third, and then mobbed by his...
Barry Bonds remembers Hank Aaron as 'icon' after complicated history
The man who supplanted Hank Aaron as MLB's home run king, albeit in a tainted fashion, hasn't forgotten what Aaron did for him and the game. After news broke Friday...
Hank Aaron's death the latest in spate of Hall of Fame passings
Hammerin' Hank Aaron's death on Friday at the age of 86 made him the latest Baseball Hall of Famer to join the Big Game in the Sky. In the past...
Hank Aaron navigated baseball's nasty home run chases with grace: Sherman
How would you have handled it? How would you have reacted to not a hundred or two hundred, but hundreds of thousands of racist letters deriding you, threatening your very...
Hank Aaron didn’t want to be remembered for his home runs
Henry "Hank" Aaron passed away Friday at the age of 86, and from all precincts of America came remembrances and odes to the legacy of the sports and civil rights...
The astounding numbers behind Hank Aaron's Hall of Fame career
Hank Aaron's legendary career went far beyond numbers. But those numbers were incredible. Aaron, who passed away Friday at the age of 86, was one of the most feared hitters...
Baseball world reacts to Hank Aaron’s death: 'Legend, hero'
The MLB world was crushed by the passing of Hank Aaron at the age of 86 on Friday. The legendary slugger, who passed Babe Ruth as MLB's home run king,...
Legendary slugger Hank Aaron dead at 86
Hank Aaron, who endured racist death threats while chasing down and breaking Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record, and still considered by many to be baseball’s legitimate long ball king,...
How MLB's reclassification of the Negro Leagues affects record book
Major League Baseball’s reclassification Wednesday of the Negro Leagues will correct “a longtime oversight in the game’s history” and officially recognize players and statistics from much of that segregated era....
MLB contracts signed by Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron up for auction
An auction house is offering 15 vintage Major League Baseball contracts signed by some of the all-time greats. The contracts for sale include deals signed by Mickey Mantle with the...