A suburban Chicago auction house reports that a baseball card from Mickey Mantle's 1951 rookie year with the Yankees has brought a record 160 thousand dollars for a veteran Evanston card collector.

David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who chronicled the Vietnam War generation, civil rights and the world of sports, was killed in a car crash Monday, his wife and local authorities said.

The Yankees honored Jackie Robinson by dedicating a memorial in Monument Park to the former Brooklyn Dodgers star Tuesday.

The Dodgers solemnly lined up along the third-base line, each and every one wearing No.

Jackie Robinson's 42 isn't the only number with special meaning to the Indians.

Sixty years after Jackie Robinson shook the baseball establishment and broke the sport’s color barrier, an unforeseen grassroots movement by today’s players has suddenly shaped the way Major League Baseball will commemorate the anniversary.

More than 200 players will wear Jackie Robinson’s No.

Gustavo Dominguez, a sports agent, was convicted Thursday of smuggling five Cuban baseball players into the United States.

Bud Selig addressed the weather issue on Monday, a concern people throughout baseball have expressed after snow fell hard in Cleveland.

Major League Baseball struck a deal to keep its "Extra Innings" package of out-of-market games on cable television on Wednesday, an agreement that likely will allow the sport's new TV network to be available in at least 40 million homes when it launches in 2009.

Major League Baseball's chief operating officer, Bob DuPuy, gave the following update to Sports Business Daily: "We will continue discussions until we reach a deal or it becomes apparent we cannot.

No definitive word has come from the extended discussions between cable companies and Major League Baseball over a potential deal to carry the Extra Innings package of out-of-market games.

The New York Times is reporting that Major League Baseball has extended contract negotiations with cable providers over the out-of-market television package known as Extra Innings.

This season, batters must keep at least one foot in the box throughout an at-bat or it's a strike; with the bases empty, pitchers must not wait more than 12 seconds between pitches (once he has the ball) or it's a ball; no more stepping into a dugout to catch a foul ball; and no more tie games that are suspended because of weather being played over -- now, they'll be resumed from the point of stoppage.