For Tyler Kepner's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
A planned permanent exhibit in Cooperstown is intended to highlight the Black experience in baseball, aiming to shed light on a legacy that has often been diluted and erased.
"Can you think of anybody else in baseball who people would actively say, ‘You know, I wouldn’t mind if the Astros won — because of Dusty’?"
The league’s enhanced enforcement of foreign-substance usage by pitchers has made mandatory umpire checks a strange new sight in every game.
