Joe Garagiola said, “Baseball is a funny game.” With that in mind, I offer one of my favorite funny baseball stories this week. It concerns one of baseball’s funniest people ever, umpire Ron Luciano.

MLB issued a statement today regarding Pat Hoberg. The umpire has been fired for violating the league's gambling policy. Per ...

Human umpires have been a part of the game of baseball for as long as the game has existed. But baseball has been testing a concept that would eliminate human ...

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ)- The Texoma area has a shortage of umpires for high school baseball. The Wichita Falls Umpire Association is short about 15 to 20 umpires from where they would like to ...

On the baseball diamond. Currently employed by the White Sox, Sopko was one of 50 candidates in the MLB Umpire Prospect Development Camp held in January at the Jackie Robinson Training Complex, the ...

The Dodgers balked, and Black opted to work instead for 3M company in Decatur. Sixty-four years later, Black is a happily retired Moulton resident and renowned former youth baseball umpire. He was ...

Despite cricket being a lucrative sport, umpiring often lacks financial rewards, discouraging many from pursuing it as a career. This sentiment has been echoed by numerous Bangladeshi umpires, and a ...

Jackie Robinson inspired countless Black athletes to pick up a glove and bat to play baseball -- but his impact goes far beyond those who played the game. Case in point: Emmett Ashford. Fifty-eight ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Top draft picks and longtime prospects will compete for one of the lone glaring openings in the Guardians lineup when spring training gets underway next week. The competition is sure ...

Have you ever noticed a funny similarity between kids and football players when it comes to being caught red-handed doing ...

Augmented reality (AR) has come to a Major League Baseball stadium, with the announcement that the Minnesota Twins are bringing ARound to Target Field in Minneapolis. The program is described as ...

Major League Baseball’s competition committee has unanimously ... The rationale would be that if the violation went unnoticed by umpires and opposing teams, the shift could result in an out.