A state judge in Albany granted a temporary injunction forcing State to fully implement a law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons after elements ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito has announced plans to honor Japanese World War II prisoners during his visit to Mongolia next week.

He hit the greatest home run ever. And the way Carbo sees it, his Boston Red Sox teammate and New Hampshire’s own Carlton Fisk dethroned him for that title four innings later. Carbo, in town for a ...

Catcher Hank Gowdy of the Braves became the first major league player to enter military service in World War I. 1939 — The Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves played a 23-inning, 2-2 tie. Whit ...

In 1994, baseball pitcher Bill Lee told filmmaker Ken Burns about his baseball card collection as part of Burns’ sprawling ...

And the chorus together is like the swelling of an anthem. You cannot help but get caught up in it. Ken Burns appears at Winspear Opera House on June 3, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $45 and up, ATTpac.org.

Ken Smith gives thanks every morning, followed by 20 pushups. He’s believed to be Florida State's oldest-living letterman in baseball, if not across all sports.

Luckily for Burns, he did have a few resources. Several archives, libraries and heritage societies, the Negro League Baseball Players Association, articles from the Chicago Defender (which are ...

Duh, it was Bill Lee. Even in his late 70s, Lee carries himself like a player. It was perfect casting of one of baseball’s all-time characters by director Carson Lund.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary series that explores the country’s founding and its eight-year War for Independence, will premiere on Sunday, November 16 and air for ...

“I am the church of baseball, and Jesus was a left-hander.” That’s Bill Lee. Irreverent. Honest. Left-handed. From 1969 through 1982, Lee was a tough southpaw for the Boston Red Sox and ...

The fourth episode of Ken Burns' "Country Music" PBS documentary is fueled by the origin stories of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn.