South Carolina baseball star Ethan Petry earned a second-round selection in this summer’s Major League Baseball Draft. The ...
When October comes around, baseball’s biggest stars step onto the grandest stage, the World Series. This is where pressure meets glory, and where a single swing can change history. Over the years, a ...
TORONTO — Joe Carter slipped into the Blue Jays’ home run jacket, then touched them all in a parade of dugout high-fives. The hero of Toronto’s 1993 World Series triumph threw out the ceremonial first ...
Back to the 1970s in the History again this week as we look back to a memorable win for QPR away to their opponents on ...
The American League Championship Series shifts to T-Mobile Park in Seattle, with the Seattle Mariners holding a 2-0 lead over the Toronto Blue Jays. Now, T-Mobile Park may not be known as a home-run ...
It took five games, but the Milwaukee Brewers outlasted the Chicago Cubs on Saturday night to advance to the NLCS. That series will begin in Los Angeles tonight after the Dodgers took down the ...
Kevin Carroll, The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Oct. 11—WILKES-BARRE — Everybody loves the long ball. Throughout the duration of his legendary career, Babe Ruth was happy to oblige. Baseball's most ...
WILKES-BARRE — Brian Burkhardt had a simple reason for being at the Kirby Park softball field on Saturday afternoon. “I love to hit home runs,” the avid softball player from Nanticoke said. The ...
Cassidy Bicking holds the winning homerun trophy and the longest homerun trophy during the women’s Babe Ruth Homerun contest. Left is Mike Slusser and right is Alan Stout. Brian Hontz poses with his ...
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — On October 12, 1926, Babe Ruth made baseball history right in Wilkes-Barre. During an exhibition game at Artillery Park, he crushed a 650-foot homerun, believed to be the longest ...
(LEX 18) — Diane Crump, the first female jockey to run in the Kentucky Derby in 1971, has been diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. Now, her family is raising funds to help ...
In 1926, it is believed that Babe Ruth hit a home run so far that he requested it to be measured — some reports say he never made that request with any other home run that he hit. WILKES-BARRE — The ...