There’s nothing like a beautiful left-handed baseball swing. Watch 15-year-old Lillian Martineau swing a bat and one word comes to mind: ballplayer. Lilli’s story is as old and American as apple pie: baseball, triumph over adversity, and a skosh of gender bias. Hers is a story also patently modern. …

Three Kings. Two Queens. Twelve Hall-of-Famers. — London, November 6, 1924. Apparently, there is a simple solution to spark a rally. Tempt the baseball Gods with the divine right of Kings. Two Major League Baseball teams are visiting England to try and grow the game in Europe made up predominantly of John McGraw’s New York Giants and…

Jackie Robinson changed the face of America forever, with his contributions on the field and off. — Baseball is inextricably tied to the American narrative. So is race. There is no more unassailable voice for advancing the cause of equality in America than that of Jack Roosevelt Robinson. It is an iconic image in the American storybook; number 42 of the Dodgers, one foot out of the…

History can flip on a dime. “You better quit f — — — with me,” said Lt. Jack Roosevelt Robinson, Cavalry Officer in the United States Army. Lieutenant Jack Robinson was headed to Europe when fate intervened. An incident borne of racism would lead him in a different direction and…