When a swarm of honeybees interrupted the Orioles’ game against the Colorado Rockies on Sunday, it wasn’t the first time that insects had stopped play in a major league game. On June 2, 1959, Orioles ...

Sixty-five years ago, the struggling Orioles bought an aging relief pitcher, on the cheap, to help their porous bullpen. At 36, Hoyt Wilhelm’s best years were thought to be behind him. Moreover, his ...

Hoyt Wilhelm is best remembered for being the first pitcher who was primarily a reliever to be inducted into the MLB Hall of Fame. What is often overlooked is that he was a part of the first trade in ...

The late Hoyt Wilhelm began experimenting with a knuckleball pitch at Cornelius High. That explains the movement afoot to rename a local park for the Major League Baseball Hall of Famer. The Cornelius ...

In this 1970 file photo from the Associated Press, knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm showed how he grips the ball before he threw his signature pitch (he didn’t actually use his knuckles at all). Wilhelm, ...

Don Larsen Returns to Baltimore It was a drizzly, cloudy day, but my friends and I decided to go to see the Orioles play the Yankees anyway. We wanted to boo Don Larsen, who was starting for the ...

Ed. Note: On Thursday, the SI national desk had planned a roundtable feature on "building the perfect pitcher" (Verlander's heat, Kershaw's curve, etc.). In exchange, we offer a cheeky piece on the ...