“In the last ten years it has been estimated by an able statistician that the annual number of accidents has been 37,518, of which 3 percent have been fatal; 25,611 fingers and 11,016 legs were broken ...

Major League baseball catchers have to field pitches flying at 90 mph or more, often catching several hundred fastballs a day. A team of medical researchers has concluded that despite improvements in ...

Back on Dec. 2, 1963, the MLB rules committee convened and decided that the ridiculously-oversized catcher's mitt being used to haul in Hoyt Wilhelm's fierce knuckler would no longer be allowed by the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Patrick Bailey is doing it again. He is spinning more pitches from borderline straw to strike-zone gold than any catcher in the major leagues. His pitch framing has saved the ...

Close-up shot of a baseball glove (image: Kevin Dooley via wikimedia commons) To round out our series on the the design of baseball equipment, let’s take a brief look at the baseball glove. Unlike the ...

Being able to pitch a baseball 100-plus miles per hour is an insane gift. To create that much velocity and sheer torque out of a small object is something only a few people can do. If you're an MLB ...