It was not always a good year, but it was always a necessary one. To commemorate the golden anniversary of 1972 in baseball, to give it the fresh testimony it deserves, let's look back ...

Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson, two of baseball's most notorious rule-breakers, have dominated the headlines this week, ...

It was June 1972 and I was covering the Dodgers for The ... Robinson had nothing to do with the team after he left baseball. Following the 1956 season, the Dodgers traded him to the Giants and ...

Nine days before dying in his Stamford, Conn., home, on Oct. 24, 1972, Robinson challenged baseball to do better if it truly wanted to honor him and his legacy. “I couldn’t care less if ...

Baseball had done much for him and he had done ... by asking him to throw out the first ball in the second game of the 1972 World Series. They had a date all picked out for the dinner.

A cornerstone in the vintage baseball card hobby, the 1972 Topps Carlton Fisk Rookie Card celebrates the debut of one of the game’s great catchers to play the game. The card itself, which ...

The 1972 Yankees Wife Swap is one of the most scandalous events in the history of baseball. The story revolves around two New York Yankees players, Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich, who announced at ...

By Bruce Weber Roger Kahn, whose 1972 book about the Brooklyn Dodgers of the early 1950s, “The Boys of Summer,” melded reportage, sentiment and sociology in a way that stamped baseball as a ...