Baseball’s Winter Meetings often conjure images of general managers sketching out trades on cocktail napkins, or stealthily ...

1925 — Cleveland’s Tris Speaker got his 3,000th career hit, off Tom Zachary, in a 2-1 loss to the Washington Senators. 1939 — The first baseball game on television was broadcast by W2XBS, an ...

Gary Carter's death at 57 from a brain tumor hits home for Nationals manager Davey Johnson, who skippered the New York Mets from 1984-90 and had Carter as his catcher from 1985-89. Carter backstopped ...

The Mets announced that a pregame ceremony with the family of the late Gary Carter will be held before the April 5 opener at Citi Field. Carter's wife, Sandy, son D.J. and daughters Kimmy and Christy, ...