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In ESPN The Magazine, Howard Bryant examines how the Oakland Athletics have found a way to win, despite being in an outdated ballpark and poor market for baseball. But the real question is: Why should they have to?

Offense in the major leagues increased slightly this season after five consecutive years of drops, while strikeouts reached a record high and walks dropped to their lowest level since 1968.

Nelson Cruz throwing Miguel Cabrera out at the plate to preserve a tie game in the eighth inning of Game 4 of the ALCS brought back memories of other notable postseason plays at the plate. Here's a list compiled by Stats & Information: 1968 Wor...

Louisiana authorities on Monday dropped a bid to extradite former Detroit Tigers star Denny McLain, major league baseball's last 30-game winner, for trial in a dispute over a scrap metal sale.

At his peak, Johnny Bench was lethal at throwing out attempting basestealers, more than 40 percent every season from 1968 to 1978, twice peaking at 57 percent. Even more amazing is that since few guys even attempted to steal on Bench, that means only...

Former Detroit Tigers outfielder Jim Northrup, who hit a decisive two-run triple in Game 7 of the 1968 World Series, died Wednesday. He was 71.

If a team drafts one future star, that's a pretty good draft. If a team drafts three solid future contributors, that's a pretty good draft. But no team has ever come close to the draft haul the Dodgers pulled off in 1968. Back then, the draf...

We're about 25 percent of the way through the season. After writing about my 25 percent AL and NL MVPs earlier, here are 10 important things we've learned so far. 1. Offense is down and not going up. OK, it's not quite 1968, but entering Tuesda...

Although pitching dominated last year and seemingly has been equally as good this season, nothing compares to what went on during the 1968 season.

Sandy Alderson's introduction as Mets GM is scheduled for Friday at 2 p.m. at Citi Field, the team announced. The list of previous GMs: George Weiss, 1962-66 Bing Devine, 1967 Johnny Murphy, 1968-69 Bob Scheffing, 1970-74 Joe McDonald, 1975...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Rangers reliever Alexi Ogando needed just 25 pitches to get through three innings on Wednesday, earning his third win of the season. Ogando became the first player since 1968 (Detroit's Jon Warden) to start his major league car...

Ubaldo Jimenez is pitching like Bob Gibson in 1968, and he's single-handedly propping up the Rockies' playoff hopes along the way. If the season ended today, you could make a strong case for him as the NL MVP, because no player has meant mo...

Blog | June 18, 2010

While wins might be a statistic newer generations of stat-savvy fans are more dismissive of, it's hard to deny the unreal discrepancy between games the Rockies win when Ubaldo Jimenez pitches and the amount they lose when he doesn't.

Blog | Conversation | June 18, 2010

Is it throwback time in baseball? Are we back in 1968, when Bob Gibson roamed those elevated pitching mounds? Just look at the scores, or, say, the Pirates' batting averages.

Bobby Valentine was drafted in 1968 by the Dodgers, and every moment remains etched in his memory all these years later.

Who's gonna win 30 games? "Doc" Halladay. So says and sings The Baseball Project in their latest song, "30 Doc," available exclusively and free on ESPN.com.