After a two-month strike in '81, anger was up, crowds were down and chaos (not to mention Pete Rose) reigned. World wars, earthquakes, civil unrest, terrorist attacks, military threats, infectious ...

The last time two of baseball's most storied franchises -- the Yankees and Dodgers-- faced each other in New York came in the 1981 World Series. So in honor of that matchup finally taking place ...

The 1981 baseball season stands as the great outlier in baseball history. It was the first season when Major League players would go on strike. It was the first and still the only season with a first ...

It was not the worst of times for baseball fans. That would come in 1994, when there was a work stoppage and no World Series. But the 1981 baseball season was the first season to be interrupted by a ...

For 97 years, the Phillies would begin each season uncertain that they would ever become champions of the baseball world. Then came the 98th, the season that would carry no doubts. Months earlier, the ...

When Fernando Valenzuela first stepped onto the mound in 1981, few could have predicted the seismic shift he would create, not just in baseball, but in the cultural fabric of Los Angeles. His untimely ...

If you are over the age of 42 and have been a lifelong Cincinnati Reds fan, you might vaguely recall the 1981 strike. A total of 713 games were canceled, the first time regular season baseball games ...

A commemorative sign hanging on the backside of the third-base dugout at Boone High’s baseball field bears a peculiar slogan that was once a rally cry for perennial underdogs. Above it, there’s an ...

In 1979, the Oakland Athletics hit rock bottom, winning only 54 games and at one point drawing a mere 653 fans to a midsummer game. The team responded by hiring fiery field manager Billy Martin in ...

Former Florida Southern All-American first baseman Mark Angelo, a member of the Moccasins’ 1981 national championship team and one of the most accomplished hitters in FSC’s baseball history, died ...

Bob DiBiasio was a young public-relations director for the team and figures in the book. Now the team's senior vice president for public affairs, he chatted with us about his memories of that year.

Slider isn’t the best mascot in baseball, but he’s certainly not the worst. Which is more than Indians fans could say back in 1980 when “The Baseball Bug” was the fuzzy image of the team. Poking ...