The legendary Fitchburg State College baseball team of 1961 can add another honor to its long list of accomplishments. The squad, which is still the only baseball team in school history to ever ...

I get excited just thinking about the 1961 baseball season. I was 10 at the time, so I was looking at it through a child’s eyes. Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle were challenging each other to be the man ...

Benedictine is set to play for the fourth state baseball title in school history when the Cadets meet up with Marist in Lawrenceville in a championship series beginning on Thursday. Win or lose, the ...

Nat “Junior” Gencarelli insists the record was 18-0. Several of his teammates argue it was 17-0, a fact backed up by Liberty High School’s yearbook. 17-0, 18-0, it doesn’t matter. No one could dispute ...

They've had knee replacements and hip replacements, and they've buried two of their own. But they were young once, boys of summer, chasing glory on dirt infields that passed for baseball diamonds ...

They were called the Colts, a fitting nickname for a baseball team that grew into thoroughbreds. The Buick Colts of 1961 were just a collection of mostly Southwestern High kids playing in the Boys ...

It’s June 1 st and we’re two months into the baseball season. But history has taught us that the storylines which define a particular season usually don’t begin to take shape until Memorial Day ...

America had enjoyed a surge in prosperity throughout the 1950s that was felt almost everywhere. The nation was ready to expand its horizons, with Alan Shepard and the Mercury Seven astronauts only ...

Recognize the name Dizzy Dean? Maybe Chick Hafey or Ron Santo sound familiar? If you know who those guys were, you’ll want to meet Mike Vance, Bob Dorrill and Bill McCurdy, the three men behind ...

A uniform worn by Yankees legend Roger Maris’ while he smashed 61 home runs in his epic 1961 season could fetch more than $1 million at an auction later this month. The pinstripes from the slugger’s ...

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