Many Americans see baseball as a sport for men and softball as a sport for women. It wasn’t always this way in the US – and it isn’t that way in the rest of the world.

Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed. Spring training this year has featured another seismic twist: the chance for ...

now a highly successful umpire and the only woman to ever umpire in the World Baseball Classic, was sent home from training ...

Bettmann / Getty Images As the first black umpire in Major League Baseball, Emmett Ashford encountered ... reminder of the courageous men and women who integrated U.S. sports after World War ...