Billy Herman

Bobby Valentine has a better guess where he'll be Thursday than the Yankees do. Bobby V, who has posted fewer Vs than any Red Sox manager since Billy Herman in 1965, figures to be on the other end of a phone call summoning him to a meeting with the...

TV SPORTS Women's College Basketball-Michigan at Purdue, 5:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Penn State at Northwestern, 7:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Idaho at Nevada, 10 p.m. (ESPNU) Men's College Basketball-Xavier at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); Villanova at...

Please welcome this guest post by Eric Enders, author of "The Fall Classic: The Definitive History of the World Series." * * * In filling out my all-time Dodger lineup card, something occurred to me that I???d never thought about......

After competing in a playoff-caliber atmosphere at Busch Stadium over the weekend, the Cubs played before a relatively subdued crowd of 11,337 on Monday night at PNC Park. And as the excitement level fell off, so too did the Cubs' offense in a 3-2 loss...

(BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; VC: Elected by the Veterans Committee; NL: Elected by the Veterans Committee based on Negro league career): 1936 -- BBWAA: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Honus...

PITCHERS Grover Alexander (1918-1926) Two-time 20-game winner (1920, 1923) with Cubs won 15 or more games six times during tenure here. Career record of 373-208 overall, 128-83 with Cubs. Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown (1904-1912; 1916) Six straight...