Baseball has a richer history than any other American professional sport and its genetic code is written out in numbers. No other game places such a premium on stats, facts or figures. That's the science of baseball,

Dave Smith has spent the vast majority of his 75 years poring over baseball’s smallest details. On a Sunday afternoon in February, his attention was fixed on finding out exactly what happened on every play in a 1919 ballgame between the Tigers and Yankees.

The top players from around the globe are stepping back into the batter’s box for the World Baseball Classic. Twenty squads will battle over a two-week span for the title of best baseball nation on Earth. Three countries have earned that title in the ...

In subsequent seasons, the 2005 San Diego Padres (82-80) and 2007 St. Louis Cardinals (83-79) captured ignominious “championships” in the six-team format, with the Cards Jeff Weaver-ing their way to a World Series title.