Baseball

PORTVILLE — “Play ball” are two words baseball fans haven’t been able to enjoy this year. But on Saturday, the Fourth of July, area fans of America’s ...

OLEAN — Olean Little League has become the latest casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. The local youth baseball season, for all divisions, has officiall...

It was one of the points, an “oh, yeah” moment, raised by Portville baseball coach Mike Matz in a phone call Friday. That night, in response to Major ...

It reignited one of the most long-standing debates in baseball. Earlier this week, after a frustrating, months-long back-and-forth, Major League Baseb...

There are people who can’t wait for Major League Baseball to begin the fourth Friday in July. However, I’m not one of them. And, no, I’m not among tho...

(Editor's note: The following is a story about an unsanctioned exhibition game involving current and former members and personnel of the Olean Oilers....

Monday night on ESPN, six professional sports league commissioners from across the country appeared on a SportsCenter Special hosted by Mike Greenberg...

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Phillies shut their spring complex after five players tested positive for COVID-19 and at least two others teams close...

DUBOIS, Pa. — Danny Manion wasn’t sure if he’d be able to play organized baseball this summer. But the Bradford native, who had his redshirt freshman ...

NEW YORK — Yankees President Randy Levine called on the players’ association to resume negotiations with Major League Baseball to start the pandemic-d...

Can it be three full months that we’ve been almost entirely without organized sports … amateur, college or pro? We haven’t gotten used to it, but we’v...

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any uglier. After 10 weeks of little to no progress in a labor dispute on the resumption of play between Maj...

The idea was floated during a radio interview with Buffalo-based WGR 550 last Tuesday. At the very end of a 24-minute segment, Mike Wilner, the voice ...

TAMPA — If MLB and the union can find a way to a 2020 baseball season in the age of the coronavirus pandemic, it will obviously be unique. There will ...

He was born just outside of Bradford on October 13, 1876, as George Edward Waddell. But by the time he got to Major League Baseball in 1897, he was kn...

The relationship between the two is apparent. The New York Collegiate Baseball League is a developmental circuit for professional baseball which uses ...

PITTSBURGH — Chris Archer won’t pitch for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2020, and his time with the club may be over. The 31-year-old right-hander had sur...

OLEAN — Matt Fidurko was supposed to be making the two-hour trek to Niagara Falls today. Under ordinary circumstances, he and the Olean Oilers coachin...