Sports Baseball A look back at 1968, the year of the pitcher Detroit's Denny McLain in 1968, a year in which he won the Cy Young and MVP in the American League.

DETROIT (AP) — Bill Freehan, an 11-time All-Star catcher with the Detroit Tigers and key player on the 1968 World Series championship team, died Thursday at age 79.

The Detroit Tigers were playing for something more than a pennant as they embarked on the 1968 baseball season. Hundreds of homes destroyed. Thousands of stores looted and burned. That spring, the ...

Baseball fans remember 1968 as The Year of the Pitcher, when Denny McLain won 31 games, Bob Gibson had a 1.12 ERA, and Carl Yastrzemski led the American League with a modest .301 batting average. It ...

Baseball salaries have risen 16 times faster than the average U.S. worker since the first MLB collective bargaining agreement.

Against this backdrop, Sridhar Pappu chronicles the 1968 baseball season, focusing on the lives of Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals and Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers, two dominating ...

The 1968 Highlands Owls baseball team pulled off both feats when it beat Pasadena 3-1 for the Class 4A state title, riding a one-hitter by left-hander Glenn Harris to cap a 24-3 season.

In 1968, as baseball's owners acted clumsily and indecisively in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, long-silent players started to find a collective voice.

Harmon Killebrew had the coolest name in baseball in 1968. Today’s players can’t ever hope to have a name like that. His last name alone was worth eight home runs a season.

I haven’t read the book, but the title is excellent: Summer of ’68: The Season That Changed Baseball, and America, Forever. Phil Rogers interviewed the author, Tim Wendel, in Monday’s ...

The 1968 baseball season was especially memorable because it was the last time a pitcher won 30 games and because it saw the end of Mickey Mantle's playing career.