Although gambling scandals have been a part of professional baseball since the sport's beginning, no scandal threatened the game's stature as "the national pastime" more than the revelations that eight members of the Chicago...

The 1919 World Series matched the American League champion Chicago White Sox against the National League champion Cincinnati Reds. Although most World Series' were of the best-of-seven format, the 1919 World Series was a best-of-nine-games series (along...

It's too bad "Shoeless" Joe Jackson isn't still alive. It sounds like he's got an ally in presidential candidate Bill Richardson.Richardson, the Democratic governor of New Mexico, took a swing by the "Field of Dreams" movie site in Dyersville on Wednesday.A lifelong baseball fan and...

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig might face a brushback pitch or two when he testifies next week before a congressional committee investigating steroid use among players. But it will be nothing compared with the treatment that Congress gave the sport's first commissioner.In 1920, in the wake...

Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Carlo Gambino are long gone. Murder Inc. is out of business. Las Vegas has been so cleaned up it resembles Disneyland. And Havana? Forget about it since Castro took over. But Albert "Chinky" Facchiano, at 96, is still standing. And...

Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Carlo Gambino are long gone. Murder Inc. is out of business. Las Vegas has been so cleaned up it resembles Disneyland. And Havana? Forget about it since Castro took over.But Albert "Chinky" Facchiano, at 96, is still standing. And like...