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Upward of 25,000 scraps of paper and yellowed newspaper clippings in Peter Gorton’s northeast Minneapolis basement tell dual stories that intersect at an improbable place: the central Minnesota town of Bertha. That mountain of research chronicles the dominant but largely forgotten career of a black baseball pitcher named John Wesley Donaldson. The other plot line centers on Gorton, a 46-year-old speech consultant and tireless researcher. For 14 years, Gorton has…

As the off-season settles upon us, I am picking up my series of baseball book reviews again, to keep the home fires burning over the long, dreary off-season. Feel free to shoot recommendations my way over on Twitter or in the comments! This is half a book review—Big Data Baseball, by Travis Sawchik, which was recommended to me by Isabelle—and half a meditation on the Mariners’ rebuilding process under Jerry…

The Windows Store has a solid starting line-up for you to keep up with all the comings and goings of the sports world. These apps deliver the news, scores, standings, stats and rankings to your Windows 10 device. These sports apps offer a great option for keeping up with the scores, especially from your Windows 10 Mobile device while on the go. Coverage includes a broad range of sports leagues…

Despite the old stereotype that theatre and sports don’t mix, musical theatre has tackled a number of sporting events, whether it’s a show with a plot all about sports, like Damn Yankees, or just a single number, like “She Likes Basketball” from Promises, Promises. With the 2016 World Series starting soon (it begins Tuesday, October 25), we’re taking a look at seven times musical theatre sang about baseball, from drama…

By: Jessie Karangu | October 21, 2016 8:09 pm Cleveland could be on the verge of winning two championship within the same year. The Cavaliers won their first ever NBA championship in June while the Indians could win their first World Series since 1948. Does all of this success make Cleveland the best sports town in America right now?  Luke Kerr-Dineen and Charles Curtis break it down. cavaliers, Championship, Cleveland,…

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RELATED: Series standings | Chase Grid | All you need to know for Talladega The Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup elimination-style format is in its third year and the 2016 postseason marks the last time that Talladega Superspeedway will serve as a cutoff race for the Round of 12 as the playoff field drops to eight drivers. The Talladega and Kansas Chase races will flip-flop their spots on the…

An American soccer television network sued Fox Sports Latin America in federal court Thursday, alleging that Fox executives had paid tens of millions of dollars in bribes to FIFA officials in South America in exchange for lucrative television rights to soccer tournaments. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of Florida, accuses Fox Sports executives of participating in a scheme involving money laundering, offshore shell companies and illicit wire transfers…

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Sport is a universal language that can help prevent extremism and racism among young people, London-born Pakistani footballer Kashif Siddiqi said on Friday, urging governments to do more to bring together players from different religions. Siddiqi, co-founder of Football for Peace, a charity that puts on matches between communities of different ethnic or cultural backgrounds, said being born to a Ugandan mother and an Indian…

The Abu Dhabi Tour has brought pro cycling to another nontraditional cycling country. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com ABU DHABI, U.A.E. (VN) — Dreams come true in the U.A.E., at least for Yousif Mirza. The local rider worked at the Dubai airport and improved to the point to be the country’s first Olympic cyclist this August. Now he has two national tours to choose from. This week at the…

LONDON Jose Mourinho, who was sacked as manager by Chelsea in December, said he would be going back to Stamford Bridge with his new Manchester United team on Sunday with “no bad feelings”. The Portuguese believes he can never be removed from the history of Chelsea, where he won three Premier League crowns in two spells in charge, and said he would always be grateful to the fans for their…

When Ousman Manneh arrived in Germany as an unaccompanied 17 year old refugee from Gambia in 2014, he just wanted to survive. Two years later, he’s a professional soccer player and has scored his first league goal for Werder Bremen, a team in Germany’s top soccer division, Bundesliga. Shortly after arriving Germany, the young striker joined Blumenthaler SV, a fifth tier regional club in Bremen. Manneh scored 15 goals in…

MELBOURNE Australian pro cycling team Orica-BikeExchange believes Team Sky’s stranglehold over the Tour de France may be loosened by the unconventional 2017 route and are relishing the prospect of a battle of “aggression” on the road. The course unveiled this week, which starts in Duesseldorf on July 1 and ends in Paris on July 23, is peppered with a number of steep climbs occurring early in stages. Organizers hope it…

TORONTO — In the middle of the Arizona desert was a rink, if you could call it that, with a sheet of ice about a third the size of regulation. And above the rink were some bleachers. And in the bleachers would sit a kid. And next to the kid would be a duffel bag. And in the duffel bag would be a dozen hockey jerseys, each a different color,…

LONDON Jose Mourinho, who was sacked as manager by Chelsea in December, said he would be going back to Stamford Bridge with his new Manchester United team on Sunday with “no bad feelings”. The Portuguese believes he can never be removed from the history of Chelsea, where he won three Premier League crowns in two spells in charge, and said he would always be grateful to the fans for their…

Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images I read this the other day, a throwaway line that made me do a double take: The Cubs have never won an NLCS. Well, sure they haven’t. League championship series have only been around since 1969, and the Cubs haven’t been to a World Series since 1945. It’s a useless, obvious bit of trivia—barely a factoid—but it’s a good example of how, when we’re talking about…

Nearly a century since being banned from baseball after being implicated in the Black Sox scandal, “Shoeless Joe” Jackson, who died in 1951, continues to captivate fans of America’s pastime. That’s why anything associated with the legendary slugger attracts top dollar in the sports memorabilia market. One of Jackson’s bats fetched $583,500 Thursday at a Christie’s auction despite having what the auction house described as a “substantial” crack. And a signed…

Longtime Phillies outfielder Shane Victorino sat down for a lengthy Q&A with Ryan Lawrence of PhillyVoice.com and covered a great number of topics, including career highlights, his favorite teammates and places to play, his memories from the Phillies’ World Series run and also his future in the game of baseball. The whole Q&A is worth a read for Phillies fans and Victorino fans alike, but it’s worth noting that Victorino…