DiMaggio, who underwent lung cancer surgery in October and battled a series of complications for weeks afterward, died shortly after midnight, said Morris Engelberg, his longtime friend and attorney.

With top baseball players seemingly only becoming better over time, it feels like every Major League Baseball record is in constant peril. Still, nobody has even come all that close to surpassing an ...

It took some pitching to keep this 1903 winning streak going as long as it did. Joshua Báez of the Cardinals hits 3 homers in his first 3 at-bats in a historic major league debut Joshua Báez smashed ...

1924 — Jesse Haines of the St. Louis Cardinals pitched a 5-0 no-hitter against the Boston Braves. 1925 — Tris Speaker is the 5th player to reach 3,000 hits. 1936 — Carl Hubbell’s 24-game winning ...