The starting pitching matchup is set for the Nationals and Phillies to open the season with a division rivalry at Nationals ...

Phillies manager Rob Thomson announced on Monday what everybody already expected. Zack Wheeler will start on Opening Day on March 27 against the Nationals in D.C.

Only a select few people ever become all-time greats in their fields. Others become so intertwined with legends that their ...

Schallock, a left-hander, began his baseball career in 1947 at 23 when he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur ...

Fried isn’t quite as imposing, but he’s the one whose ERA-plus trumps Grover Alexander, Randy Johnson, Whitey Ford and most all-time greats. “He can do a lot of different things with the ...

On the sports front, Whitey Ford, a Hall of Fame pitcher and long-time member of the New York Yankees, was a resident of Lake Success. Ford is remembered as one of the greatest pitchers in Major ...

The Boss loved it so much that he sent a letter to representatives of the “Chairman of the Board” (Sinatra shared that nickname with Yankees Hall of Fame lefthander Whitey Ford) asking if the ...

The Elmira-Corning All Sports Banquet was an annual event that ran for 40 years, from 1966 to 2005. The Elmira-Corning All Sports Banquet featured the biggest names in sports during a 40-year run ...

Yankees ace Gerrit Cole became the latest starting pitcher to suffer a season-ending elbow injury, part of a worrisome trend ...

Whitey Ford was one of the best pitchers in the 1950s -- perhaps only Robin Roberts and Warren Spahn were better -- but Ford started more than 30 games only once that decade, in part because ...