Bill Terry

Q: With the All-Star Game coming up, I have a few questions about the midsummer classic. 1) Was there ever a year when all the starters from one league went to the Hall Of Fame? 2) Who has the highest ERA in All-Star competition and lowest batting average...

Twenty-four years ago, the Baseball Hall of Fame welcomed an Oriole known simply by his first name - a balding infielder who defined his position and bled orange all his life. Next week, Cooperstown, N.Y., will do this again. And like Brooks Robinson...

Player, Year, Cast, Votes, Pct. Tom Seaver 1992 430 425 98.84 Nolan Ryan 1999 497 491 98.79 Cal Ripken Jr. 2007 545 537 98.53 Ty Cobb 1936 226 222 98.23 George Brett 1999 497 488 98.19 Hank Aaron 1982 415 406 97.83 Tony Gwynn 2007 545 532 97.61...

The middle-class homeowners who gathered here on a recent weeknight call themselves the Gentilly Civic Improvement Assn. It's an unexceptional name -- one that belies the epic challenges they face. The members talked public high schools; they said it'd...

Robert Green had more reasons than most not to return to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Floodwaters carried away his family's Lower Ninth Ward home. His granddaughter, Shanai, and mother, Joyce, died in the storm. Now he's back,...

(BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; VC: Elected by the Veterans Committee; NL: Elected by the Veterans Committee based on Negro league career): 1936 -- BBWAA: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Honus...