Major League Baseball

The best pitcher in baseball proved to be the difference between two very different ball clubs. And an odd World Series should give the downtrodden American League real hope for the future

The World Series opened on a slightly shocking note when Zoilo Versalles and the underdog Minnesota Twins upended Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax, the supposedly unbeatable titans of the Los Angeles Dodger pitching...

BASEBALL—The World Series was in progress, but already the Hot Stove League had started. Fired: DICK SISLER, manager of the Cincinnati Reds, as a result of his team's disastrous final-week collapse to fourth place in...

It might not be simple cause and effect, but Illinois put mascot Chief Illiniwek into the SMU game at halfback and won 42-0. Actually, the chief had been on the bench all along, except at half time. Illiniwek,...