The history and issues involved with the Designated Hitter rule

A discussion of the arc of the baseball season, the All-Star Game, the Trading Deadline

A look ahead to the next months leading up to Opening Day

The San Francisco Giants capture their second World Series in three years with a sweep of the Detroit Tigers

More on "PECOTA" and other predictive means and why they don't mean much at all

This Ernest Lawrence Thayer poem is in the public domain and is an all time favorite of baseball fans everywhere

First basemen, the Gatekeepers and sluggers

The newly-added second Wild Card pays off in tight races in more cities

I meet Sandra Sanicki, daughter of Ed Sanicki who made a big splash with the Phillies in 1949.

A look at the last week of the 2010 MLB season and some possible post-season scenarios