The 1987 NL Champion St. Louis Cardinals were my team. I was 7 years old in 1987. The game wasn’t new to me, but it was the year I found my passion for it. It was the first year I regularly followed a ...

Even now, 35 years later, opening a pack of 1987 Topps feels like home. The wood-grain borders welcome you with open arms, like the memory of wedging yourself into the corner of the comfortable but ...

Two packs into my box of 1987 Topps, ordered online in a moment of nostalgic indulgence, the memories were rushing back faster than Vince Coleman used to steal second base. The smell of the gum was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jerry Beach covers New York sports and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Most of baseball’s timeless rules and tradition have expired in ...

The problem with being so successful in 1986 was that the 1987 Alabama baseball team had nearly no returning starters As if playing baseball in the Southeastern Conference wasn't difficult enough, the ...

In an article that appeared on Baseball Prospectus recently, I concluded that, in spite of an across-the-board decrease in player salaries, the winter's market has done a very efficient job of ...

I could just kick myself for forgetting that this year is the ruby anniversary of Jackie Robinson`s first major-league baseball game. Peter Ueberroth, a thoughtful man and alert commissioner, did not ...

— Barrington outfielder Mike Bradley has signed a national letter of intent with the University of Iowa. Bradley, who hit 11 home runs for the Broncos` 1986 Class AA state champions and is hitting at ...

Say you had a time machine. Say you set it to 1987. Say you met a baseball fan from that year named Kelly. What could you tell Kelly about baseball in 2017 that would most strain his or her belief?