Politics even figured in attempts during the ... In that vein, we’ll leave the final words to Pete Rose himself, from an interview in 2014 — a rejection of mythology from a ballplayer long ...

Each implicitly casts the universe of baseball as a magical land that touches, but maybe isn't precisely part of, the “real” world in which we live. “The whole history of baseball,” the writer Bernard ...

Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe and Politics: Baseball and the Real World Collide More Often Than We Think PITTSBURGH (AP) — The legends of pastoral fields. The detailed history and meticulous attention ...

Since the game’s early days, baseball mythology has been constructed — often deliberately — to set itself apart. But ...

FILE - This 1921 file photo shows Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, rear left, as Chicago White Sox players, Charles "Swede" Risberg, center left, and Arnold "Chick" Gandil, look on during the ...