As far as baseball card collecting goes, the 1940s is about as close to the Dark Ages as it gets. The 1930s and 1950s were absolute fire, but the decade they sandwiched included World War II, which ...

When the United States entered World War II after Pearl Harbor, the War Production Board rationed paper and cardboard for the war effort. Between 1942 and 1947, baseball card production came to a ...

As a youngster, I loved baseball. Because there was no little league — or any kind of league — for youngsters to play in, we would just gather, choose up sides and play. We could spend hours just ...

In honor of the Philadelphia Phillies playing host to the 2026 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Citizens Bank Park, we ...

GRAND CHUTE (WLUK) -- What would the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers have looked like in the 1940s? Fans will get a chance to find out on July 12 when the team holds Fauxback Night at Fox Cities Stadium.

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — The conversation around racial integration in baseball often revolves around Jackie Robinson, who broke the major league color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers. But a year ...

Baseball: once considered a man’s sport had soon found itself in a crisis in the fall of 1942. Men had gone to fill the ranks for World War II while America’s favorite pastime had left a gaping hole ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — The conversation around ...

A baseball star befriends a young fan and their lives are changed forever in a new musical showing at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick. Set in Brooklyn in the 1940s, "Last Days of Summer" ...