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Meanwhile, the Red Sox add Tommy Pham and subtract Christian Vazquez.

Fantasy Baseball Trade Deadline Tracker: Josh Hader traded to Brewers; venue change could benefit Trey Mancini

You may have heard the charming tale of how war hero Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York. Unfortunately, that’s a bit of a myth. The true story of who invented baseball is a little more convoluted and a tad less romantic.

Who Really Invented Baseball? The history of “America’s pastime” is more convoluted than you may think.

Cheating in baseball is as old as the game itself, and pitchers’ modifying the ball’s surface is part of that long history.

Sticky baseballs: Explaining the physics of the latest scandal in Major League Baseball Pitchers in Major League Baseball have been striking out more batters than ever, and some people say it’s because they’re adding sticky stuff to the balls.