Baseball

The idea was to honor more, and different kinds of, baseball and softball players. Last spring, the Times Herald introduced two new awards for its spr...

ALLEGANY — The Olean girls basketball team outscored Allegany-Limestone 22-16 in the third quarter to pull away with its first CCAA West I divisional ...

Bernie Williams. Mookie Wilson. Dennie Miles? The former longtime Wellsville baseball boss rubbed elbows with some elite company last weekend. Miles w...

The New York State Baseball Hall of Fame has inducted some of the greats from the New York Yankees and Mets over the years, as well as state-born broa...

ST. BONAVENTURE – St. Bonaventure baseball coach Larry Sudbrook, the winningest coach in school history among all sports, has announced that he will r...

If ever there was a year to participate in such an exercise, this is certainly it. Earlier this week, I was asked by Scott Richey, who covers Illinois...

One day earlier, the most pressing matter in his life was, of all things, a can drive. On Saturday, May 1, Mike Matz and the Portville baseball team h...

This season, the Big 30 saw not one, not two but three Division I-bound baseball players lift the teams around them. And while this season the Times H...

He signed with the New York Yankees in 1951, spending his first professional season, at age 19, with the club’s Class D affiliate in … Olean, N.Y. And...

BUFFALO — Tom Prince wanted to do something a little different. A little more ambitious. Prince, the president of WNYathletics.com and a staple in the...

Earlier this season, in this space, my frustration with the incursion of analytics into baseball telecasts boiled over. However, I’ve actually gotten ...

PORTVILLE — For a single team, in a single sweltering afternoon, the adversity was overwhelming. Portville baseball coach Mike Matz, sensing that some...

BUFFALO — These two teams had seen each other before. In May 2019, the Olean High baseball team, with more experience than its counterpart, which was ...

SOUTH DAYTON — For a fleeting moment, the Franklinville baseball team was in command. Tied at 1 through three innings, the FCS Panthers exploded for s...

OLEAN — Jason Brooks just missed on his opportunity to win the game in the seventh. The star senior, his coach maintained, wasn’t going to come short ...

PORTVILLE — The unbeaten Portville baseball team has buried opponents with big innings all season — so much so that some Big 30 football squads would ...

NORTH COLLINS — Beau Bielecki was likely just trying to get something going. Instead, he wound up changing things entirely. With the Franklinville bas...

When Joe Beimel retired from professional baseball in 2017, he had already enjoyed a career that most players would be satisfied with — himself includ...