This Date in 1920  —  April 19, 1920 saw seven games played, two of them in a double header between the Yankees and Red Sox at Boston.  It was the return of Babe Ruth to his old home for the first time after the trade to the Yankees.  Ruth went three for eight with a double …

Mets broadcaster Howie Rose talks to the Daily News about baseball's future this year, joining Twitter, growing a beard and more  —  Howie Rose has a void in his life without putting baseball in the books.  —  The legendary broadcaster, who has been calling Mets play-by-play on radio …

How would MLB playoff teams change in a shortened season?  Here's what recent years tell us  —  We don't know when the baseball season will begin, so we don't know how many games will ultimately be on the schedule.  The shorter the schedule, the greater the likelihood of surprising results, of course.

Early peek at data on Gilead coronavirus drug suggests patients are responding to treatment  —  A Chicago hospital treating severe Covid-19 patients with Gilead Sciences' antiviral medicine remdesivir in a closely watched clinical trial is seeing rapid recoveries in fever and respiratory symptoms …

Today in White Sox History: April 8  —  This day was a doozy, because it turned out to be one of the biggest and most painful “what if's” in franchise history.  —  As per the rules at the time, the White Sox had to choose between two pitchers signed to “bonus baby” contracts …

Union chief Tony Clark still optimistic MLB will play games in some way in 2020  —  Tony Clark, sitting in his Phoenix-area home Wednesday morning, looks at his cellphone, sees Jackie Robinson's picture as his screen saver, and reads the immortal words again.  —  “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

A 2020 Minor League Baseball Season Grows More And More Unlikely  —  If this were a normal year, the MiLB season would be one week old.  But as we all know, there is nothing normal about 2020.  And it's becoming all too easy to imagine the complete 2020 season being cancelled.

Following Jackie Robinson's commitment to fighting poverty is the best way MLB could honor his legacy  —  Jackie Robinson's extraordinary path is too narrow for most of us to follow.  How could it not be?  —  He was the first to break baseball's color barrier, in part because Major League Baseball players …