Catfish Hunter

After a colorful 35-year reign as "The Boss," George Steinbrenner, 78, handed over the day-to-day operations of the Yankees to his youngest son, Hal, who turns 40 on Dec. 3. Although George's failing health forced him into the background in recent years,...

George Steinbrenner, 78, officially handed over control of the Yankees to his younger son, Hal, 40, on Thursday, a move unanimously approved by MLB owners. After leading a consortium to buy the team from CBS in 1973, George Steinbrenner became perhaps the...

Now Hal, not George, officially is Yankees' boss. The news release consisted of just a few lines. Nothing about it was a surprise, really, and yet it still felt like some melancholy passage, as if some engraver had just taken a chisel and carved...

It had become something of a running joke, the flip side of the old "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" routine, this fiction the Yankees were perpetuating that, all evidence to the contrary, George M. Steinbrenner III still was The Boss....

Al Clark crushes the batting-practice offerings. Hits 'em out of the park. For nearly an hour, he weaves tales from his umpiring career. World Series assignments, no-hitters and treasured mementos. Cal Ripken's record-breaker, Bucky Dent's home run and...

Athletics@Orioles 7 p.m. [MASN2] Once upon a time, this series would be a playoff preview - 1971, 1973, 1974. Vida Blue vs. Jim Palmer. Catfish Hunter vs. Mike Cuellar. Ken Holtzman vs. Dave McNally. The funny uniforms and mustaches didn't mean those...

SAYING GOODBYE: The last regular-season game in Yankees Stadium's 85-year history started with a ceremony that honored some of the best players in franchise history and ended with a Yankees victory. The Yankees went 4,133-2,430-17 in the stadium and won...

Remember when you were a kid and your dad or mom would take you to a game and Tom Seaver or Catfish Hunter was pitching a gem and it was the seventh or eighth innings and all of a sudden another pitcher would be on the mound because Seaver or Catfish...

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...

Trying to dismiss Randy Johnson's fourth inning yesterday as "just one of those things'' is like the punch line to an old joke: "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?" After retiring nine straight White Sox, four by strikeout, and...

(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...

True to his style as a Sherwin-Williams kind of guy, Ryne Sandberg won't try to describe his 16-year career as some masterwork by Picasso. He would rather not discuss it at all. "You're asking me to brag about myself," Sandberg said Tuesday when asked if...