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Aaron made his last public appearance just two weeks ago, when he received the COVID-19 vaccine. He said he wanted to help spread the message to Black Americans that the vaccine was safe.

Babe Ruth has hit another one out of the ballpark. The bat used by the legendary baseball player to hit his 500th home run was auctioned on Saturday for more than $1 million. SCP Auctions didn’t identify the buyer. The auction was held in Laguna Niguel, California. Ruth hit his 500th homer on Aug. 11, 1929, in a game against…

Babe Ruth has hit another one out of the ballpark. The bat used by the legendary baseball player to hit his 500th home run was auctioned on Saturday for more than $1 million. SCP Auctions didn’t identify the buyer. The auction was held in Laguna Niguel, California.

Jessye Norman was remembered as a force of nature as thousands filled the Metropolitan Opera House on Sunday for a celebration of the soprano, who died Sept. 30 at age 74.

Bartolo Colon found the perfect way to scratch his itch to pitch.

Julia Ruth Stevens, the last surviving daughter of Hall of Fame baseball slugger Babe Ruth and a decades-long champion of his legacy, has died at age 102, her family has announced. Tom Stevens said Sunday that his mother died Saturday morning at an assisted living facility in Henderson, Nevada, after a short illness. In keeping with her wishes, her remains...

Julia Ruth Stevens, the last surviving daughter of Hall of Fame baseball slugger Babe Ruth, has died at 102.

Boston is marking the 100th anniversary of its most peculiar disaster — the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. Exactly a century ago Tuesday, a massive wave of 2.3 million gallons of molasses unleashed by a ruptured storage tank came crashing through the city’s North End, obliterating everything in its path.

President Donald Trump on Friday recognized a major Republican Party donor and six other “extraordinary Americans” with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the nation reserves for a civilian. Individuals who make “outstanding contributions to American life and culture” have received the medal, Trump said, adding that it was his “true privilege” to present it to six men...

A ball signed by Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Cy Young, Tris Speaker, George Sisler, Walter Johnson, Connie Mack, Nap Lajoie, Eddie Collins and Pete Alexander on the day they all entered the Baseball Hall of Fame just sold for a record $623,369.

A record 10 home runs. A slew of strikeouts. The all-or-nothing All-Star Game mirrored what baseball has become. Astros teammates Alex Bregman and George Springer homered on consecutive pitches to begin the 10th inning, and the American League beat the National League 8-6 Tuesday night for its sixth straight win.

A look back at the four All-Star Games Washington hosted in the 20th Century, featuring future Hall-of-Famers like Lou Gehrig, Dizzy Dean, and Willie Mays, and presidential appearances by Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.

A Maine man credited with saving the lives of kids before he was killed by a hit-and-run driver at a Babe Ruth baseball game in Sanford was himself involved in a fatal hit and run in New York nearly 50 years ago.

Barry Bonds talks about his father Bobby Bonds, godfather Willie Mays, career highlights and his favorite pitcher he faced in the game.

Now slugging for the Bronx Bombers, Giancarlo Stanton.

Get excited, Bay Area football fans. Two locals have made the Harris Poll’s list of Greatest Football Player.