Now the second most popular team sport in the country, you might never guess that baseball reached Mexico with invading U.S. soldiers.

Baseball has grown far from its home in Cooperstown, New York, becoming a beloved international game. The United States and Japan are hosts to the two most popular professional baseball leagues today, ...

My brother Rick and I grew up in a time and place ideally suited to the formation of lifelong baseball fans. The time was the 1950s and early 1960s; the place was Pomona, California, just a bit ...

Baseball, more than any other sport ... Elias Williams While researching a book on the origins of the sport, Thorn had chanced upon an 1869 history of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, covering the ...

It is impossible to pinpoint precisely where the first baseball game was played in Mexico. Despite a few cities claiming the honor and many efforts to find the exact place, not even historians ...

Be sure to stay tuned tomorrow night for a special edition of the CBS6 news at 7 - the origins of baseball. It's a closer look at America’s pastime and where it all began, examining the history ...

On Jan. 11, 1873, The Arizona Miner newspaper reported one of the first baseball games played in the Arizona Territory, a Christmas day game at Camp Grant: “In the forenoon, an exciting game of ...