D.C. area photographer Ron Baker met and photographed President Jimmy Carter at a number of events during his administration.

Bob Veale, a Birmingham native who pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Boston Red Sox in the 1960s and 1970s, is shown outside Rickwood Field in Birmingham in 2003. Veale died this week at age 89. ...

Failure to make the playoffs in a season of top-tier individual performances meant drastic changes needed to be made.

Oddly, the Rams saw their playoff spot clinched Sunday night by Washington’s win over Atlanta. The Rams are NFC West champs, ...

It’s the first game of a doubleheader of Sunday, May 17, 1964, Cubs vs. Reds. Bottom of the first, one out, Leo Burke batting ...

Rickey Henderson was at his incandescent best when playing for the Oakland A’s and New York Yankees. His two tenures with the ...

Oakland Athletics fans are still reeling from the fact the Major League Baseball team will no longer play a game locally. Now ...

(AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File) New York Mets’ Rickey Henderson, right, slides safely into second base with his 30th stolen base of the year as St. Louis Cardinals second baseman ... up third base after ...

Baseball Hall of Famer and stolen base king Rickey Henderson has died. He was 65. Known as baseball’s “Man of Steal,” ...

On May 1, 1991, Henderson stole his 939th base, breaking the record held by Cardinals legend Lou Brock. The flecks of dirt, thrown into the air by Rickey’s trademark headfirst slide, hardly had ...

Louis Cardinals great Lou Brock, who held the record of 938 for a dozen years before Henderson surpassed him in 1991. Henderson holds the records for the most stolen bases in a single season with ...