baseball

How Joe Carter’s home run entrenched Canada as a baseball country

The generation that came of age dreaming of Joe Carter’s 1993 World Series home run changed the face of baseball in this country

Away Game is a baseball-time-travel mash-up

An entertaining read from former Maclean’s editor Bob Levin

The science and psychology of The Wave

When it works, the wave is a glorious thing. (It doesn’t always work.)

What if stat nerds were given the keys to a pro baseball team?

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller, two baseball wonks, get a chance to apply their wildest data dreams in real life

Newsmakers 2015: Josh Donaldson and the Jays’ miracle run

There was a playoff run, at last, for the Toronto Blue Jays’ faithful. And it all started with the acquisition of an eventual MVP.

The real story behind the most famous scandal in sports history

The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball

Toronto and KC librarians trash talk each other’s baseball teams

Librarians have created baseball #BookSpinePoetry

An ode to bandwagons—in sports, and politics

Whether it is in baseball or politics, believing in something bigger than yourself is the great pleasure of the fan

The fine art of heckling

Anyone can yell insults at the ballpark. Mastering the delicate art of heckling takes finesse.

Jason Kendall tells us how baseball is really played

Book review: Throwback: A Big League Catcher Tells Us How The Game Is Really Played

Yes, Yusmeiro, one can have too much perfection

Colby Cosh explains why he’s started to cheer for hitters to break up perfect games

Reporter Kelly Nash nearly hit with baseball in ‘most dangerous selfie ever’

Sports reporter Kelly Nash had a close call over the weekend while she was killing time during batting practice at Fenway Park by taking pictures of herself in the stadium.