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Meet the world's oldest living former major leaguer: Cuba's Conrado 'Connie' Marrero, who pitched for the Washington Senators 63 years ago and just turned 102 years young.

There's a neat book out called "Facing Ted Williams" that's worth checking out if you're a Red Sox fan, Williams fan or just a fan of players talking about baseball from the old days. Writer Dave Heller interviewed dozens of players who played aga...

The great ones don't all go out like Ted Williams, hitting .316 in his final season and homering in his final at-bat, rounding the bases at Fenway Park on a gray afternoon that required the lights turned on. "He didn't tip his cap," wrote Joh...

I wanted to point out a couple of interesting Stan Musial links. First, Matt Philip has a graphical tribute to Musial's amazing career here. Check it out. Rob Neyer has a nice column on what Musial meant ... to a Royals fan. Finally, Dave Camer...

A couple weeks ago, Keith Law unveiled his annual list of the top 25 players under the age of 25 . Keith's list isn't a projection of the best players for 2013, but rather a projection and ordering of players if you were starting a franchise. I th...

There are four left fielders in major league history who stand out among all the rest. Three of them are three of the most exciting, singular players in the annals of the sport; they are also three of the most arrogant, churlish players in the game's...

ACC Georgia Tech Ricky Jeune WR Montvale, N.J./Saint Joseph Regional HT: 6-2 WT: 205 Position Rank: #74 WR Stars: 3 Maryland Chandler Burkett DE Panama City, Fla./Deane Bozeman School HT: 6-4 WT: 220 Position Rank: #116 DE Stars: 2 ...

Richard Ben Cramer was a Pulitzer Prize winner. He was a revered biographer whose expertise stretched from baseball to politics. He also was the hero of one Ryan McGee.

In my earlier post, I wrote about players since 1969 who had terrific all-around seasons but didn't win the MVP Award. As a companion to that piece, let's take a quick look at worst MVP winners. There are many ways to look at this, but the easiest is...

Believe it or not, noted strikeout artist Mark Reynolds has something in common with some of the game's greatest sluggers, including Hank Greenberg, Ted Williams and Harmon Killebrew.

Little League memories and lost youth come to the fore on the occasion of the death of our writer's old coach.

Although Red Sox royalty, Johnny Pesky forever remained a man of the people.

The reboot of "Total Recall" hits theatres today, and Playbook has decided to have a little fun. The movie talks about a factory worker who wants to be a superspy. Or he is already a superspy who is acting like a factory worker? Is he Doug Quaid or H...

NEW TOLEDO, OHIO TERRITORY, NEW EARTH, April 28, 3012 - All the dignitaries were there to witness Two Saints Day. Robothal v297.0 recorded all the pageantry with its trademark bleeps and bloops. Giving the keynote speech was Ted Williams's Unfrozen H...

This came up on my Twitter timeline Sunday night when somebody asked if Mike Trout is having the greatest rookie seasons of all time. Entering Monday night's game against the Tigers, Trout is hitting .349/.403/.574 and leads the American League in ba...

Here's a look at the numbers behind some of the biggest sports stories this past month. Send us suggestions for next month's edition by tweeting at @michaelkruse with the hashtag #GrantlandStats. Number of Seattle Mariners who combined to pitch a ...