All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known worldwide as manga. And all stand on equal ground with the likes of Shohei ...

Tim Kurkjian discovers why baseball's best backup catcher -- and a real character -- is a hit in the clubhouse.

Skenes, wearing a gray suit jacket and white dress shirt ... that an 11-year-old pulling his MLB debut patch made national news this offseason, Skenes has zero interest in baseball cards.

Bill Howerton was a beloved figure in the local baseball ... participating school to pick one spotlight game as a fundraiser. Some teams sponsor raffles, others sell special T-shirts, still ...

Since the 1960s, people have been searching for the mythical creature known as Bigfoot. Most cryptozoologists would place him in the forested expanses of the Pacific Northwest of America, perhaps even ...

The wooden cubicle is stuffed with an assortment of items you’d expect — a variety of shoes and cleats, gloves, an assortment of jerseys, T-shirts ... 28-year-old Boyle’s baseball journey ...

Favorite memory: I don’t recall what year this happened, but we had a surprise visitor to the press box who was parading around with his shirt off ... There’s an old-school feel about this ...

Justice was born and raised in Raleigh County, West Virginia, where he’d ride his bike to school, play Little League baseball ... as he grabbed me around my shirt, or chest, and just slammed ...

Ferrin, Mary Catherine Gingles, 34, and her 64-year-old father, David Ponzer ... “He’d literally give a stranger the shirt off his back and then spend the rest of the night acting like ...