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Earlier this week, Major League Baseball announced that the annual All Star Game would be moved from the suburbs of Atlanta to Coors Field in Denver in order to demonstrate the league's opposition to Georgia's new restrictive voting laws. KUNC's Alana Schreiber spoke to Professor Tom Zeiler about this surprising decision from a sport that often strives for political neutrality.
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Major League Baseball was supposed to start back in March, but it was pushed back, along with most major sports, by the coronavirus pandemic.After months…
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It started as an off-the-cuff Tweet to the Colorado Rockies: “How many retweets for you to buy an organ and let me be the Coors Field organist next…
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Commentator Frank Deford weighs in on two of the youngest, brightest stars in professional baseball.
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Major League Baseball's All-Star Game may be less starry than usual this year because of Kansas City fans' campaign to get as many Royals players as possible into the game.
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Commentator Frank Deford ponders which city has had the worst luck in sports. It's hard to decide whether Cubs fans or Cleveland fans deserve the most sympathy for their years of cheering on futility.
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You can thank audio engineer Joe Carpenter and his 80 microphones every time you hear the crack of a bat, smack of a glove or thud of a base in this World Series.
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With baseball's pennant race in full swing, commentator Frank Deford takes a moment to examine an oft-used baseball phrase ... and imagines how sportswriters might apply it to big moments in history.
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Forget peanuts and Cracker Jack. Sausages are the food most closely linked to the national pastime, says Frank Deford.
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Commentator Frank Deford talks about the widely divergent age requirements in American sports leagues, and why there's no true minor league in football or basketball.