Always coinciding with the onset of Spring, and often with Easter, baseball is the sport that uniquely contributes to a sense of rejuvenation and optimistic expectation. Its slower pace and long season also make it more suited than other sports to philosophical
Yogi Berra, Gil Hodges, Derek Jeter, Babe Ruth, Whitey Ford and Connie Mack were among the first-place winners Catholic voters chose in online balloting for an all-time Catholic baseball all-star team.
Nearly 2,000 Catholic baseball fans across the country cast their votes in
With Major League Baseball’s spring training now underway after a monthslong labor strife has finally been resolved, we can now say that baseball is back. Or is it? Writer Charles Camosy explores the sport’s lockout and a new rule change through the
Dubbed the "Rally Nuns," the Dominican Sisters of Mary Immaculate Province, a growing congregation of Vietnamese consecrated women religious in Houston, became a viral sensation when they filled the rows of Minute Maid Park for two games of the American League Championship
Editorial director Gretchen Crowe writes: “The Washington Nationals — longtime basement dwellers turned post-season heartbreakers — have made it to the Fall Classic. As Nats radio play-by-play announcer Charlie Slowes likes to call on momentous occasions: ‘Remember where you are so you
“Time it was and what a time it was, it was … A time of innocence.” — “Bookends,” by Simon and Garfunkel (1968) I did a guest column for the local paper recently describing the sort-of baseball games we made up and