To watch the fifth episode of Ken Burns' "Baseball" is to see exactly what makes the sport great as a metaphor for the country.

Contrast to lore, Ruth was not truly an orphan. He was born in Baltimore on the coldest day of the year, Feb. 6, 1895, in the ...

MOUNTAIN PINE -- Mountain Pine senior Harrison McMahan is the starting catcher on the Red Devils baseball team. Head coach ...

Ruth Simon is a New York-based reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she covers small business and entrepreneurship. She has previously covered consumer lending, mortgages and housing, and ...