CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called Armando Galarraga a "tremendous pitcher" Sunday and praised him for his sportsmanship after an umpire's blown call kept him from pitching a ...

Nothing fires up sports fans faster than a bad call. A single whistle or raised arm can flip joy into outrage, and some mistakes are so huge they live on forever in the form of changed games and ...

Every year on June 16, I wish family and friends a Happy Bloomsday. Often, I am met with bemusement and looks of bewilderment. So, I think I should explain what exactly Bloomsday is and why it matters ...

For as long as there has been baseball, there have been umpires missing calls. Some bad calls worth raising an eyebrow over, while others lead to ejections after heated arguments. But in almost every ...

Armando Galarraga was back in town on Saturday, signing autographs with plenty of "28 outs" inscriptions. "It's the highlight of my career. The way me and Jim Joyce handled it, we handled it really ...

Richard Ellmann’s “James Joyce” is widely regarded as the greatest literary biography of the 20th century, much as some see Joyce’s novel “Ulysses,” published in 1922, as its supreme work of fiction. ...

Detroit ― We sure do like a little "Detroit vs. Everybody" attitude 'round here. Of course, we could take it or ― better yet ― leave it when it comes to our sports, however, especially when the game ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Baseball is officially back. After yet another Michigan winter, spring is here and the Detroit Tigers are back in action, taking on the Los Angeles Dodgers in their season ...

Jesse Meyers, now 89, retired in 1994 from a job in business publishing and marketing. His obsession began when, at the suggestion of his late wife, Lola, he sat in on a lecture about the 20th-century ...

"Almost a certainty" Trump's aide will be convicted if he doesn't cooperate with Jack Smith, ex-U.S. attorney says ...

On June 2, 2010, Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga was one out away from throwing a perfect game, but a controversial call at first base by umpire Jim Joyce changed both of their lives.

We needed some happy news this week, and I think we got it. But first, a journey back in time. It was Monday July 4, 1983, a painfully hot day, 94 degrees when the game began. We were at Yankee ...