Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Louis Requena/MLB via Getty Images Think about the greatest names in baseball: Ruth, Mays, Aaron, Cobb. It's normally the home run ...

For a young card collector, it's one of the greatest tales of all time. During this week 35 years ago, Bryan Wrzesinski, 12, pulled off quite the steal. He went to a new card store named Ball-Mart in ...

It's one of the controversial stories I remember most from my childhood. Back in 1990, in a baseball card shop just a few Chicago suburbs over from where I grew up, a 13-year-old named Bryan ...

Longevity or peak? It’s the oldest argument in pitching, and Nolan Ryan and Sandy Koufax sit at opposite ends of the spectrum. Ryan threw heat into his mid-40s and racked up counting stats that look ...

Even in a decade defined by titans and Hall of Fame cards, there were a few glaring holes in the Topps archives. These are ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 20, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. The Chicago Cubs lost to the St. Louis ...

The 1960s was a decade of change and expansion in Major League Baseball. MLB entered the decade with just 16 teams, split evenly between the American and National Leagues. But the sport was booming, ...