Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dan Freedman is lawyer and IBWAA member who writes about baseball. Marvin Miller, executive director of the Major League Baseball ...

It’s fun to play on the internet and encounter treasures like the full television broadcast of the 1981 World Series. Pearl Bailey sang the anthem. The lead play-by-play voice belonged to a man better ...

It truly was the best of times and the worst of times in baseball in 1981. On one hand, the "Fernandomania" phenomenon brought unmatched levels of excitement to the game every fourth of fifth day in a ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher inspired "Fernandomania" during his blockbuster rookie season in 1981 He was 63. The Dodgers organization did not provide a cause of death, When Valenzuela pitched ...