They rode horses. They played baseball and basketball.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Henry Torgl may be enjoying Detroit baseball and a beer, but questions about a special Friday visitor are on everyone's mind.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

But in nineteen seventy-five, two pitchers in Major League Baseball, Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally, fought the system and won.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

Jackie Robinson had difficulty on and off the baseball field, but he did not let that interfere with his game.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

He also led the Brooklyn Dodgers to six league championships and to baseball's World Series Championship in nineteen fifty-five.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

Baseball expert Richard Miller writes that many songs about other subjects -- such as love -- use words and expressions from baseball.

VOA: special.2011.04.04

Today Shirley Griffith and Rich Kleinfeldt tell about a man who changed professional baseball in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

There are twenty-one playgrounds for children as well as areas to play basketball,baseball, football and even chess.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

Unlike Major League Baseball,salaries in the National Basketball Association and some other leagues are capped.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

He became one of the best. He also worked to change the way baseball, and the country, treated racial minorities in the nineteen fifties and sixties.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

The first event included trainers from Washington's professional football,baseball,basketball and hockey teams.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

In the United States, soccer competes with baseball, American football and basketball.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Jackie won honors in baseball,basketball, football and track.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

DAVID FAULKNER: "For many years, there had been an active campaign against segregated baseball led by Negro newspaper editors and,strangely enough,by the Communist party, which from the middle nineteen thirties on, had actively campaigned against segregated baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

He would try to explain it this way when students asked for a top grade just for studying hard in chemistry class: What if a baseball player came to spring training and worked harder than all the others, but still could not play well.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

OSSIE DAVIS: "Baseball should be taken seriously by the colored player -- and in this effort of his great ability will open the avenue in the near future wherein he may walk hand in hand with the opposite race in the greatest of all American games -- baseball."

VOA: special.2009.04.05

And since when do vampires like baseball? Well, it's the American pastime, and there's a thunderstorm coming.

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In Major League Baseball, the year started poorly for Alex Rodriguez and the New York Yankees.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

But among thousands of people and performers who gathered at the Steel Yard baseball field in downtown Gary to celebrate Jackson's life were people who remembered the Jacksons before their fame and fortune.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

Well, Phil's a minor league baseball player, and he travels a lot, and my mom stayed home with me,but I knew it made her unhappy, so I figured I'd stay with my dad for a while.

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