No one has been able to come close to matching all-time home run leader Barry Bonds' seven MVP awards. Bonds won twice with ...

While the 59-day Major League Baseball strike mid-summer created a form of baseball no one had ever seen before, in Oakland fans turned out in record numbers for Billy Ball and a season that was ...

There have been 147 Mexican-born players in MLB history. The greatest among them was the legendary Fernando Valenzuela, who became an instant sensation with the Dodgers in the early 1980s and the only ...

Fernando Valenzuela improved to 8-0 with an eighth consecutive complete game to begin the 1981 season on this day in Los Angeles Dodgers history. His start against the Montreal Expos on May 14, 1981, ...

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 ...