Dizzy Dean did not like Jack Miley, a columnist for the New York Daily News. Before the 1937 season, Dean, the eccentric pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, held out and demanded a new contract of ...

The annual Dizzy Dean World Series is in full swing. And it is expected to be an economic Home Run for the city of Southaven. More than one hundred softball and baseball teams are in town competing.

The 20th annual Rickwood Classic was played Wednesday at the nation’s oldest surviving baseball park in Birmingham, with the Jacksonville Suns defeating the homestanding Barons, 8-2. The yearly ...

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SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — There’s plenty to cheer about in Southaven as the 26th Dizzy Dean baseball and softball World Series gets underway. About 70 boys’ baseball teams played at the Snowden Grove Complex ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - It was just another day at the office Tuesday at the Andrews Clinic in Gulf Breeze, Fla. Dr. James Andrews, orthopedic surgeon to the stars, performed Tommy John surgery on ...

We are coming up, soon, on the 40th anniversary of Dizzy Dean's death. Four decades, hard to believe. Not so long ago, on a drive home from the Gulf Coast, we paid a visit to Ol' Diz in Bond, the ...

New York City's Mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, would have been proud of Dizzy Dean. Bloomberg loves to denigrate the teaching profession. Dean simply reacted to criticism from some teachers in ...

On February 26, 1935, Babe Ruth returned to Boston. Baseball's greatest player signed with the Braves, hoping to play for, and eventually manage, Boston's other team. The Release It was a dark, cold, ...

Big business in the way of baseball games is coming back in Southaven. Covid forced the cancellation of the Dizzy Dean World Series last summer. One former city official says the money the event ...

Hall of Fame pitcher Don Drysdale, interviewing White Sox manager Tony La Russa in this 1981 photo, is one of eight nominees for the 2021 Ford C. Frick Award, given annually for excellence in ...